Abstract:
The characteristics of these administrative-territorial units were very close to the Ottoman bey-lic in terms
of administrative, political, economic and fiscal regimes imposed, but also in what concerned the imposition
of Islamic religious institutions in the Christian dominated milieu. In the linguistic and religious sense, the
population of the cities and territories conquered by the Ottomans was very diverse. The majority were
Eastern Orthodox, Catholics and Monophisite Armenians. After the Ottoman conquest, the proportion of
Muslims increased dramatically as compared to the Christian population. This process had as a result,
among others, the implantation of Islamic religious institutions in the conquered areas. Only in the second
half of the 18th century and beginning of the next one these processes are interrupted, as a result numerous
Russian-Ottoman and Russian-Austrian-Ottoman wars. As a consequence, the Islamic population starts to
move back to other provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
