Abstract:
The Ottoman Empire has been created on various judicial traditions and evolved during the centuries from a small principality (beylik) on the margins of the Islamic world to a world power. As a product of seizing numerous Islamic and Christian peoples with various ethno-cultural, social and political peculiarities, the Ottoman Empire becomes the sole political force to represent the Islâm. An important element in the consolidation of the Ottoman Empire in the north territories of Black Sea during the 15th-18th centuries were the territorial annexations and the subsequent imposition of direct jurisdiction and Ottoman policies in different domains. As a result of these processes, there followed important administrative, economic, spiritual and demographic changes in the „re’âyas” created on the territory of the Principality of Moldavia.
