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The road in Ottoman Bosnia (15th-17th centuries) : material approach on a road system during the Ottoman period

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It is a fact that the road network plays a structuring role in territory and population organization, as it has been widely demonstrated in different Ottoman and non-Ottoman late medieval and early modern contexts. As part of the space gradually integrated into what would become the sancak of Bosnia, the road network, in its late medieval and then Ottoman form, was involved in the penetration of troops, was linked to the foundation of settlements and became a tool for managing the flow of people and goods. The mountain environment in which this network developed gives it an undeniable importance. However, in general, the study of the Bosnian sancak road system suffers from a strong historiographical segmentation between the medieval and Ottoman periods as well as from a weak dialogue between the thematic fields involved in examining its functions (the military, tax collecting, trade, pilgrimage roads, as lines connecting well studied settlements). Yet, for this period of expansion (15th-16th centuries) and stabilization (16th-17th centuries) of the Bosnian sancak as portion of the western border of the Ottoman Empire, there is a need to better understand the dynamics at work in regional organization and population distribution. Thus, it is now necessary to consider the road as an analytical tool per se, going beyond subsidiary functional approaches. Without, however, ruling out these approaches and based on the studies carried out so far, it will be a question of presenting a paper based on a material approach, using the archaeological and geoarchaeological method. In particular, this method seeks to observe the resilience of the road and its infrastructure through a variety of sources (material remains, Ottoman administrative documents , journals of Ottoman and foreign travellers , Austro-Hungarian and other maps ). Among the results to be outlined during the intervention are likely to include : the main stages in the evolution of the road network between the 15th and 17th centuries, the material specificities of roads (paths, stony roads, etc.), their different infrastructures (bridges, lodging structures, etc.) and a comparison between the elements characterising the nodes (i.e, settlements) and the sections, all regarding their assumed functions. Particular attention will be paid to material transmission from the late medieval to Ottoman periods as well as to the weakest traces of the road network (paths for men, transhumant herds, etc.).
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hal-03953237 , version 1 (23-01-2023)

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Therouin Vincent. The road in Ottoman Bosnia (15th-17th centuries) : material approach on a road system during the Ottoman period. 15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), Jul 2022, Zagreb, Croatie, France. ⟨hal-03953237⟩
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