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Author Todorov, Nikolaĭ, 1921-2003.

Title The Balkan City, 1400--1900 / Nikolaĭ Todorov
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1983]
©1983

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Description xxvii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Publications on Russia and Eastern Europe of the School of International Studies, University of Washington ; v. 12
Publications on Russia and Eastern Europe of the School of International Studies ; no. 12
Contents pt. 1. The Balkan city under Ottoman feudalism, 1400-1800: The pre-Ottoman urban tradition ; Balkan cities, 1400-1600 ; Distribution of the urban population by religion ; Trends in urban growth ; The city in the feudal system ; The urban market and state regulation ; Guild organization and statue regulation ; Prices and the assessment of real estate ; Property status in Vidin, Sofia, and Ruse ; Money as a sign of property differentiation -- pt. 2. New directions in the development of the Balkan city: The primitive accumulation of capital ; The development of handicrafts and guilds ; The capitalist entrepreneur ; The first factories ; The population of the Balkan provinces ; Cities in Greece and Serbia ; The ethnic composition of the Danubian Vilâyet ; Migration in the northeastern Balkan Peninsula, 1860-1880 -- Population distribution by occupation ; Categorization of the population by income ; The Bazargic fair ; Urban real estate -- Conclusion -- Appendixes: Cities and their feudal revenues, ca. 1526-28 ; Testators with estates values at more than 5,000 kuruș in Ruse, Sofia, and Vidin, 1700-1800 ; Indviduals with incomes above 2,000 kuruș ; Shopowners at the Bazargic Fair, 1870 ; Owners of two or more houses in ten cities of the Danubian Vilâyet, 1860-70 ; Owners of Mağazas values at over 50,000 kurus, 1866-70
Analysis Balkan Peninsula Cities Social conditions 1400-1900
Notes Includes index
Translation of: Balkanskii͡at grad
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 563-615
Notes Translation of: Balkanskiiat grad, XIV-XIX vek
Subject Cities and towns -- Balkan Peninsula.
SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114347
LC no. 82021836
ISBN 0295958979
Other Titles Balkanskii͡at grad. English
The Balkan city, fourteen hundred to nineteen hundred