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{{Short description|Period of Vardar Macedonian history from the mid-14th century to 1912}}
]
{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Ottoman North Macedonia
| native_name = Severna Makedonija<br>(Geographical)
| image_flag = Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922).svg
| national_motto =
| national_anthem =
| image_map = Vilayets in the region of Macedonia 1907.png
| map_width = 250px
|map_caption = Map of Vilayets in the ] 1907.
| religion =
| demonym =
| government_type = ] within ] of the ]
| p1 = Lordship of Prilep
| s1 = Kingdom of Serbia
| area_km2 =
| area_rank =
| GDP_PPP =
| GDP_PPP_year =
| HDI =
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| currency =
| year_end = 1913
| year_start = 1395
| common_languages = ], ], ], ], ]
| title_leader =
| title_deputy = ], ], and ]
| year_deputy1 =
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| today = ].
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{{History of North Macedonia}}


The region of ] was part of the ] for roughly five hundred years, from the late 14th century to 1912.<ref name="Britannica"/><ref name="Macedonian Embassy London">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= 2010 |url = http://www.macedonianembassy.org.uk/history.html|title = AN OUTLINE OF MACEDONIAN HISTORY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO 1991 |publisher = Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia London| accessdate = August 25, 2010 | last=| first= |quote=The period of expansion of medieval states on the Balkan and in Macedonia was followed by the occupation of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century. Macedonia remained a part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years, i.e. until 1912}}</ref> ] was part of the ] for over 500 years, from the late 14th century until the ] in 1913.<ref name="0:" /> Before its conquest, this area was divided between various Serbian feudal principalities. Later, it became part of the Ottoman province or ] of ]. The name ] (]: ''Rumeli'') means "Land of the Romans" in ], referring to the lands conquered by the ] from the ].<ref name=0:> at Encyclopædia Britannica.com</ref>


==History== ==History==
===Conquests=== ===Conquests===
{{See|Rise of the Ottoman Empire}} {{Further|Rise of the Ottoman Empire}}


In the ] of 1371, the King of ] ] and his brother ] led 70,000 men against the ]. Despite having smaller numbers, the Ottomans managed to kill Vukašin and his brother and win the battle.<ref>Sedlar, Jean W., ''East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500'', (University of Washington Press, 1994), 385.</ref> In the ] of 1371, the King of ] ] and his brother ] led 70,000 men against the ]. Despite having smaller numbers, the Ottomans managed to kill Vukašin and his brother and win the ].<ref>Sedlar, Jean W., ''East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500'', (University of Washington Press, 1994), 385.</ref>


After the battle, most of Serbia broke into smaller principalities. One of those principalities is known as the ], led by Vukašin's son ].<ref></ref> Like most regional rulers in the Macedonian region, Marko accepted ]age under ] to preserve his position.
], sprang up all over cities like Skopje]]


The ] of 1389 sealed the fate of the region of Macedonia for the next 500 years. While both armies lost leaders and large numbers of soldiers, the Ottomans could easily assemble another army just as large while the locals could not.
After the battle, most of Serbia broke into smaller principalities. One of those principalities is known as the ], led by Vukašin's son ].<ref></ref> Like most regional rulers in Macedonia, Marko accepted ]age under ] to preserve his position.


Marko died alongside ] at the ] in 1395 and the territory of his realm became the ].<ref>{{Citation |last= Stojanovski |first=Aleksandar |title=Makedonija vo turskoto srednovekovie : od krajot na XIV--početokot na XVIII vek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ND4yAAAAIAAJ&q=%22%D0%9E%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA%22 |access-date= 24 December 2011 |year= 1989 |publisher= Kultura |location= Skopje |language= mk |oclc=21875410 |page= 49 |quote= ОХРИДСКИ САНЏАК (Liva i Ohri): Овој санџак исто така е еден од најстарите санџаци во Румелискиот беглербеглак. Се смета дека бил создаден по загинувањето на крал Марко (1395),..}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Šabanović |first=Hazim |title=Bosanski pašaluk : postanak i upravna podjela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkQQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Poslije+pogibije+kralja+Marka+i+Konstantina+Deja-+novi%C4%87a+na+Rovinama+%281394%29+pretvorene+su+njihove+oblasti+u+turske+sand%C5%BEake%2C+Custelndilski+i+Ohridski.+%22 |access-date=26 December 2011 |year=1959 |publisher=Oslobođenje |location=Sarajevo |language=hr |oclc=10236383 |page=20 |quote=Poslije pogibije kralja Marka i Konstantina Dejanovića na Rovinama (1394) pretvorene su njihove oblasti u turske sandžake, Ćustelndilski i Ohridski. }}</ref>
The ] of 1389 sealed the fate of Macedonia for the next 500 years. While both armies lost leaders and large numbers of soldiers, the Ottomans could easily assemble another army just as large while the locals could not.


All of Vardar Macedonia was under Ottoman control by the early of the 15th century, with Skopje falling under Turkish rule on January 19, 1392.<ref>{{cite web |year= 2010 |url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354223/Macedonia/42800/The-Ottoman-Empire?anchor=ref476755 |title = Macedonia :: The Ottoman Empire|publisher = Britannica| access-date = August 25, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="skopje.mk">{{cite web|year=2010|url=http://www.skopje.mk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=3&Itemid=18|title=A brief account of the history of Skopje|publisher=skopje.mk|access-date=August 25, 2010|quote=A monk at the Saint Theodor Monastery on Mt. Vodno briefly recorded the date of the town's capture by the Turks: "In the 69th year (1392) the Turks took Skopje on the 6th day of the month (January 19, 1392 according to the new calendar).|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225174924/http://skopje.mk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=3&Itemid=18|archive-date=February 25, 2009}}</ref>
Marko died alongside ] at the ] in 1395.
Aside from conflict with ]'s forces, in which areas of western part of the region of Macedonia became a battleground of ] war for more than 20 years (1444–1467), the Ottoman Empire ultimately succeeded in taking the region, incorporating it into Rumelia Eyalet.<ref>Marinus Barletius: Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum principis</ref>


===Rumelia Eyalet===
All of Macedonia was under Ottoman control by the end of the 14th century, with Skopje falling under Turkish rule on January 19, 1392.<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= 2010 |url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354223/Macedonia/42800/The-Ottoman-Empire?anchor=ref476755 |title = Macedonia :: The Ottoman Empire|format = |publisher = Britannica| accessdate = August 25, 2010 | last=| first= |quote=}}</ref><ref name="skopje.mk">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= 2010 |url = http://www.skopje.mk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=3&Itemid=18|title = A brief account of the history of Skopje |format = |publisher = skopje.mk| accessdate = August 25, 2010 | last=| first= |quote=A monk at the Saint Theodor Monastery on Mt. Vodno briefly recorded the date of the town's capture by the Turks: "In the 69th year (1392) the Turks took Skopje on the 6th day of the month (January 19, 1392 according to the new calendar).}}</ref>
{{Main|Rumelia Eyalet}}
]
From its foundation, the province of Rumelia encompassed the entirety of the Ottoman Empire's European possessions. The first capital of Rumelia was probably ] (Adrianople), which was also, until the ] in 1453, the Ottomans' capital city. In the 18th century, Monastir (present day ]) emerged as an alternate residence of the governor, and in 1836, it officially became the capital of the ''eyalet''. At about the same time, the '']'' reforms, aimed at modernizing the Empire, split off the new ''eyalets'' of ], ] and ] and reduced the Rumelia Eyalet to a few provinces around Monastir. The rump ''eyalet'' survived until 1867, when, as part of the transition to the more uniform '']'' system, it became part of the ].<ref name="EI2-Manastir">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Manāstir | first = M. | last = Ursinus | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume VI: Mahk–Mid | publisher = BRILL | location = Leiden and New York | year = 1991 | isbn = 90-04-08112-7 | pages = 371–372 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/manastir-SIM_4907}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches | series = Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients | volume = 13 | last = Birken | first = Andreas | language = de | publisher = Reichert | year = 1976 | isbn = 9783920153568 | pages = 50, 52}}</ref>


The reduced Rumelia Eyalet, centred at Manastir, encompassed also the ''sanjaks'' of Iskenderiyye (Scutari), Ohri (Ohrid) and Kesrye (Kastoria). In 1855, according to the French traveller A. Viquesnel, it comprised the ''sanjaks'' of Iskenderiyye, with 7 '']s'' or sub-provinces, Ohri with 8 ''kazas'', Kesrye with 8 ''kazas'' and the ''pasha-sanjak'' of Manastir with 11 ''kazas''.<ref name="Viquesnel">{{cite book | last = Viquesnel | first = Auguste | title = Voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe: description physique et géologique de la Thrace | volume = Tome Premier | publisher = Arthus Betrand | location = Paris | year = 1868 | language = fr | url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k116202f/ | pages = 107, 114–115}}</ref>
===Five hundred years of Ottoman rule===
During the Ottoman rule of Macedonia, cities experienced many changes with regards to the demographic makeup of their population and the look of their cityscapes. With laws that prohibited Christian buildings from being higher than Islamic ones, the skylines of cities like ] and ] were dominated by minarets.<ref name="exploringmacedonia">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= 2005-07|url = http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/?ItemID=60170837F99D7A4AAF93A56C3D280825 |title = The Church of St Spas - Skopje|format = |publisher = National Tourism Portal of Macedonia| accessdate = August 27, 2010 | last=| first= |quote= ...half of it was constructed underground, due to the 17th century edict of the Turkish Sultan that prohibited Christian structures from being higher than mosques.}}</ref>


===Vilayets===
Ottoman traveller ] visited the city of Bitola in 1661. He wrote that of the seven mosques in the city at the time, six were built in the 16th century. Most of the mosques constructed in Macedonia were square in shape with a three-domed portico and a minaret on the building's right side.<ref name="Mihajlovski">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= 20??|url=http://www.kalamus.com.mk/pdf_spisanija/patrimonium_3/024%20-%2003%20Spisanie%202010%20Robert%20Mihajlovski%2001%20ok.pdf |title = The Sixteenth Century Mosques of Bitola / Toli Manastır1|format = |publisher = Kalamus| accessdate = August 27, 2010 | last=| first= |quote=}}</ref>
{{See also|Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire}}
After administrative reform in 1860s, the Ottoman Empire was divided into ] which were subdivided into ]s.


====Macedonian cities under Ottoman rule==== ====Kosovo Vilayet====
The northern part of the Macedonian region was included in the ]. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:
<center><gallery>
*], which included the kazas of ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].
File:Bitola old.jpg|Ottoman Bitola in the 1800s
*], which included the kaza of ].
File:Prilepstreet.png|Prilep at the end of the 19th century
File:Skopje stara 2.jpg|Minarets in the Ottoman Skopje skyline
File:Štip-Ottoman-Birdeye.jpg|Ottoman Štip
</gallery></center>


===Balkan Wars=== ====Monastir Vilayet====
The southwestern part of the region was located in the ]. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:
] during the First Balkan War]]
*], which included the kazas of ], ] and ]
{{Main|Balkan Wars}}
*], which included the kazas of Debar and ]


====Salonika Vilayet====
The Balkan Wars consisted of two wars that occurred in 1912 and 1913. The first began on 8 October 1912 when the nations of the ], who had large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman rule, attacked the Ottoman Empire. It lasted seven months with the Balkan League nations coming up victorious, ending 500 years of Ottoman rule in Macedonia and the Balkans.<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web |ref=harv|year= |url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50300/Balkan-Wars |title = Balkan Wars|format = |publisher = Britannica| accessdate = August 27, 2010 | last=| first= |quote=}}</ref>
The southeastern part of the region was located in the ]. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:
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*], which included the following kazas: ], ], ]), ] and ]
{{History of the Republic of Macedonia}}


=====1881/82 Ottoman General Census=====
==Administrative divisions==
Ottoman censuses did not count ethnic groups, but rather millets, and increasingly from the 1870s onwards, ethnoconfessional groups. Thus, "Muslims" in the 1881/82 Census covered all adherents of Islam, regardless if they were ethnic Turks, Slavs, Albanians, Romani, etc. "Greeks" referred to all Greeks and to any Vlachs, Albanians and Slavs, who considered themselves to be Greek (or Serbian). "Bulgarians"comprised only
{{See also|Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire}}
those (Christian) Slavs, who considered themselves Bulgarians.
From the time that Macedonia first became part of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-19th century, it was located in the ] of ].


Thus, according to the ], the population of the kazas currently falling within the borders of the Republic of North Macedonia is divided into the following ethnoconfessional grou[s:<ref name="Karpat1881">{{cite book|last=Karpat |first=K.H. |title=Ottoman population, 1830-1914: demographic and social characteristics |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres |location=Madison, Wis|url=https://www.academia.edu/27913581 |year=1985|page=134-135, 140-141, 144-145}}</ref>
===Vilayets===
{{Table alignment}}
After administrative reform in 1860s, the Ottoman Empire was divided into ] which were subdivided into ]s.
{| class="wikitable sortable defaultright col1left""
|+ Ethnoconfessional groups in kazas currently part of the Republic of North Macedonia as per the 1881-82 Ottoman Census<ref name="Karpat1881"/>
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:160pt;"|Kaza<sup>'''1'''</sup>
! style="text-align:center; background:#FFD0C0;" colspan="2" |Bulgarians
! style="text-align:center; background:#E0F0FF;" colspan="2" |Muslims
! style="text-align:center; background:#FFD700;" colspan="2" |Greeks
! style="text-align:center; background:#D8BFD8;" colspan="2"|Miscellaneous<sup>'''2'''</sup>
! style="text-align:center; background:#D3D3D3;" colspan="2"|Kaza total
|-
! style="width:40pt;"|Number
! style="width:8pt;" |%
! style="width:40pt;"|Number
! style="width:8pt;" |%
! style="width:40pt;"|Number
! style="width:8pt;" |%
! style="width:40pt;"|Number
! style="width:8pt;" |%
! style="width:40pt;"|Number
! style="width:8pt;" |%
|-
| Köprülü || style="background:#FFD0C0;"|32,843 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 64.0|| 18,093 ||35.2 || 420 || 0.8 || 0 || - || 51,356 || 100%
|-
| Tikveş ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|21,319||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 51.3|| 19,909 ||47.8 || 260 || 0.6 || 32 || 0.1 || 41,520 || 100
|-
| Gevgili ||5,784 || 14.9|| style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 17,063||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 44.0|| 14,558|| 37.5 ||1,402 || 3.6 || 38,807 || 100
|-
| Toyran ||5,605|| 20.6 ||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 19,423||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 58.2 || 1,591|| 5.9 || 551|| 2.0 || 27,170|| 100
|-
| Usturumca ||2,974|| 9.0 ||style="background:#E0F0FF;"|15,760||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 47.7 ||13,726||41.6 || 564|| 1.7|| 33,024 || 100
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|Selanik Vilayet Subtotal ||style="text-align:right;"| 68,525 ||style="text-align:right;"| 35.7 ||style="text-align:right;"|90,248 ||style="text-align:right;" style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 47.0 ||style="text-align:right;"| 30,555 ||style="text-align:right;"| 15.9 ||style="text-align:right;"| 2,549||style="text-align:right;"| 1.3 || style="text-align:right;"|191,877 ||style="text-align:right;"| 100
|-
| Üsküp ||22,497 || 32.1 ||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 40,256|| style="background:#E0F0FF;"|57.3 || 6,655|| 9.5 || 762 ||1.1 || 70,170|| 100
|-
| Karatova ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|19,618||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 81.8 || 4,332 ||18.1 || 33|| 0.1|| 0|| -|| 23,985|| 100
|-
| Kumanova ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|29,478||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|70.5 || 12,268|| 29.3 || 87 || 0.2|| 8 || 0.0|| 41,841 || 100
|-
| Planka ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|18,196||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 88.1 || 2,078 ||10.1|| 388 || 1.8 || 0|| - || 20,662|| 100
|-
| İştip || 17,575 || 41.6 || style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 24,166 || style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 57.2 || 0 ||-|| 515 || 1.2 || 42,251|| 100
|-
| Kaçana ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|33,120 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 59.7 || 22,239 || 40.1|| 83|| 0.2|| 0|| - || 55,442 || 100
|-
| Radovişte ||7,364 || 41.0 ||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 10,519||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 58.5 || 0|| - || 97 || 0.5 || 17,980|| 100
|-
| Kalkandelen || 9,830 || 22.4 ||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 29,212||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 66.3|| 4,990 || 11.3|| 0|| - || 44,032|| 100
|-
!style="text-align:left;"| Kosova Vilayet Subtotal||style="text-align:right;"| 157,678 ||style="text-align:right; background:#FFD0C0;"| 49.8 ||style="text-align:right;"|145,070 ||style="text-align:right;"| 45.9 ||style="text-align:right;"| 12,236||style="text-align:right;"| 3.9 ||style="text-align:right;"| 1,382||style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 ||style="text-align:right;"|316,363||style="text-align:right;"|100
|-
| Monastir ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|61,494 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 44.7|| 30,517||22.2 ||41,077 || 29.9|| 4,365 || 3.2 ||137,453|| 100
|-
| Ohri ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|33,306||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 63.2 || 16,360|| 31.0|| 3,049||5.8 || 0|| - ||52,685|| 100
|-
| Pirlepe ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|43,763|| style="background:#FFD0C0;"|73.8||14,270||24.0|| 1,248|| 2.1 || 42|| 0.1 || 59,327|| 100
|-
| Kirçova ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 20,879||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 60.1 || 13,282|| 38.8 || 64 || 0.2 || 4 || 0.0 || 34,229 || 100
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|Monastir Vilayet Subtotal||style="text-align:right;"|159,442||style="text-align:right; background:#FFD0C0;"|56.2||style="text-align:right;"| 74,429||style="text-align:right;"| 26.2 ||style="text-align:right;"| 45,438||style="text-align:right;"| 16.0||style="text-align:right;"| 4,411 ||style="text-align:right;"| 1.6 ||style="text-align:right;"| 283,694|| style="text-align:right;"|100
|-
! style="text-align:left;"|{{large|NORTH MACEDONIA borders}}||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|385,645||style="text-align:right;background:#FFD0C0;"| 48.7||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"| 309,747 ||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|39.1||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|88,229 ||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|11.1||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|8,342 ||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|1.1||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"|{{large|791,963}} ||style="text-align:right;background:#D3D3D3;"| {{large|100}}
|-
| colspan="17" | {{smalldiv|1=<sup>'''1'''</sup> The kaza of Dibra did not participate in the census.<br> <sup>'''2'''</sup> The "Miscellaneous" category includes, among other things, Jews—numbering 4,274 in Monastir, 724 in Üsküp, 573 in Usturumca, 515 in İştip, 167 in Toyran, etc.; ]—numbering 1,402 in Gevgili, 376 in Toyran. etc.; Protestants—numbering 97 in Radovişte, and so on.}}
|}


====Kosovo Vilayet==== ===Balkan Wars===
{{Main|Balkan Wars}}
The northern part of Macedonia was located in the ] (1877–1912). Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory within Macedonia include:
*Sanjak of ], which included Kalkandelen ('']'')
*Sanjak of ], which included Skopje, Kumanova ('']''), İştip ('']''), Kratova ('']''), and Koçana ('']'')


The Balkan Wars consisted of two wars that occurred in 1912 and 1913. The first began on 8 October 1912 when the nations of the ], who had large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman rule, attacked the Ottoman Empire. It lasted seven months with the Balkan League nations coming up victorious, ending 500 years of Ottoman rule in the Balkans.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50300/Balkan-Wars |title = Balkan Wars|publisher = Britannica| access-date = August 27, 2010 }}</ref>
====Monastir Vilayet====
The western part of the region was located in the ] (1864–1912). Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within Macedonia include:
*Sanjak of ], which included Debar (after 1877) and Kiçevo ('']'')
*Sanjak of ], which included Korçë, ], and Kesriye ('']'')
*Sanjak of ], which included Bitola, Ohri ('']''), Resne ('']''), Pirlepe ('']''), and Florina
*Sanjak of ] (until 1881), which included Servia, and Grevena


==Vardar Macedonian cities under Ottoman rule==
====Salonica Vilayet====
], were built in the cities like Skopje]]
The eastern part of the Macedonia was located in the ] (1864–1912). Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within Macedonia include:
During the Ottoman rule of the Balkans, cities experienced many changes with regards to the demographic makeup of their population and the look of their cityscapes. With laws that prohibited Christian buildings from being higher than Islamic ones, the skylines of cities like Üsküp (]) and Manastır (]) were dominated by minarets.<ref name="exploringmacedonia">{{cite web|date= July 2005|url= http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/?ItemID=60170837F99D7A4AAF93A56C3D280825|title= The Church of St Spas - Skopje|publisher= National Tourism Portal of Macedonia|access-date= August 27, 2010|quote= ...half of it was constructed underground, due to the 17th century edict of the Turkish Sultan that prohibited Christian structures from being higher than mosques.|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110527063535/http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/?ItemID=60170837F99D7A4AAF93A56C3D280825|archive-date= May 27, 2011}}</ref>
*Sanjak of ], which included Thessaloniki, Tikveş ('']''), Usturumca ('']''), Köprülü ('']''), Gevgili ('']''), Aynaroz ('']''), Katerin ('']''), Kılkış ('']''), Vodina ('']''), and Karaferye ('']'')

*Sanjak of ], which included Serres, Petriç ('']''), Razlık ('']''), and Cuma-i Bala ('']'')
Ottoman traveller ] visited the city of Manastır in 1661. He wrote that of the seven mosques in the city at the time, six were built in the 16th century. Most of the mosques constructed on the territory of today's Republic of North Macedonia were square in shape with a three-domed portico and a minaret on the building's right side.<ref name="Mihajlovski">{{cite web |year= c. 2010 |url=http://www.kalamus.com.mk/pdf_spisanija/patrimonium_3/024%20-%2003%20Spisanie%202010%20Robert%20Mihajlovski%2001%20ok.pdf |title = The Sixteenth Century Mosques of Bitola / Toli Manastır1|publisher = Kalamus| access-date = August 27, 2010 }}</ref>
<gallery class="center">
File:Bitola old.jpg|Ottoman Manastır (Bitola) in the 1800s
File:Prilepstreet.png|Pirlepe (Prilep) at the end of the 19th century
File:Skopje stara 2.jpg|Minarets in the Ottoman Üsküp (Skopje) skyline
File:Štip-Ottoman-Birdeye.jpg|Ottoman İştip (Štip)
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Period of Vardar Macedonian history from the mid-14th century to 1912
Ottoman North MacedoniaSeverna Makedonija
(Geographical)
1395–1913
Flag of North Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire Flag
Map of Vilayets in the geographical region of Macedonia 1907.Map of Vilayets in the geographical region of Macedonia 1907.
Common languagesSerbian, Macedonian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Greek
GovernmentSanjaks within Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire
Vizier, Sanjak-bey, and Vali 
History 
• Sanjak of Ohrid 1395
• Treaty of Bucharest 1913
Preceded by Succeeded by
Lordship of Prilep
Kingdom of Serbia
Today part ofNorth Macedonia.
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North Macedonia was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years, from the late 14th century until the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913. Before its conquest, this area was divided between various Serbian feudal principalities. Later, it became part of the Ottoman province or Eyalet of Rumelia. The name Rumelia (Turkish: Rumeli) means "Land of the Romans" in Turkish, referring to the lands conquered by the Ottoman Turks from the Byzantine Empire.

History

Conquests

Further information: Rise of the Ottoman Empire

In the Battle of Maritsa of 1371, the King of Lordship of Prilep Vukašin Mrnjavčević and his brother Jovan Uglješa led 70,000 men against the Ottomans. Despite having smaller numbers, the Ottomans managed to kill Vukašin and his brother and win the Battle of Maritsa.

After the battle, most of Serbia broke into smaller principalities. One of those principalities is known as the Kingdom of Prilep, led by Vukašin's son Marko. Like most regional rulers in the Macedonian region, Marko accepted vassalage under Sultan Murad I to preserve his position.

The Battle of Kosovo of 1389 sealed the fate of the region of Macedonia for the next 500 years. While both armies lost leaders and large numbers of soldiers, the Ottomans could easily assemble another army just as large while the locals could not.

Marko died alongside Konstantin Dragaš at the Battle of Rovine in 1395 and the territory of his realm became the Sanjak of Ohrid.

All of Vardar Macedonia was under Ottoman control by the early of the 15th century, with Skopje falling under Turkish rule on January 19, 1392. Aside from conflict with Skanderbeg's forces, in which areas of western part of the region of Macedonia became a battleground of Ottoman–Albanian war for more than 20 years (1444–1467), the Ottoman Empire ultimately succeeded in taking the region, incorporating it into Rumelia Eyalet.

Rumelia Eyalet

Main article: Rumelia Eyalet
The reduced eyalet in the 1850s

From its foundation, the province of Rumelia encompassed the entirety of the Ottoman Empire's European possessions. The first capital of Rumelia was probably Edirne (Adrianople), which was also, until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans' capital city. In the 18th century, Monastir (present day Bitola) emerged as an alternate residence of the governor, and in 1836, it officially became the capital of the eyalet. At about the same time, the Tanzimat reforms, aimed at modernizing the Empire, split off the new eyalets of Üsküb, Yanya and Selanik and reduced the Rumelia Eyalet to a few provinces around Monastir. The rump eyalet survived until 1867, when, as part of the transition to the more uniform vilayet system, it became part of the Salonica Vilayet.

The reduced Rumelia Eyalet, centred at Manastir, encompassed also the sanjaks of Iskenderiyye (Scutari), Ohri (Ohrid) and Kesrye (Kastoria). In 1855, according to the French traveller A. Viquesnel, it comprised the sanjaks of Iskenderiyye, with 7 kazas or sub-provinces, Ohri with 8 kazas, Kesrye with 8 kazas and the pasha-sanjak of Manastir with 11 kazas.

Vilayets

See also: Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

After administrative reform in 1860s, the Ottoman Empire was divided into vilayets which were subdivided into sanjaks.

Kosovo Vilayet

The northern part of the Macedonian region was included in the Kosovo Vilayet. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:

Monastir Vilayet

The southwestern part of the region was located in the Monastir vilayet. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:

Salonika Vilayet

The southeastern part of the region was located in the Salonika vilayet. Sanjaks located in this vilayet that contained territory now within the Republic of North Macedonia were:

1881/82 Ottoman General Census

Ottoman censuses did not count ethnic groups, but rather millets, and increasingly from the 1870s onwards, ethnoconfessional groups. Thus, "Muslims" in the 1881/82 Census covered all adherents of Islam, regardless if they were ethnic Turks, Slavs, Albanians, Romani, etc. "Greeks" referred to all Greeks and to any Vlachs, Albanians and Slavs, who considered themselves to be Greek (or Serbian). "Bulgarians"comprised only those (Christian) Slavs, who considered themselves Bulgarians.

Thus, according to the Ottoman General Census of 1881/82, the population of the kazas currently falling within the borders of the Republic of North Macedonia is divided into the following ethnoconfessional grou[s:

Ethnoconfessional groups in kazas currently part of the Republic of North Macedonia as per the 1881-82 Ottoman Census
Kaza Bulgarians Muslims Greeks Miscellaneous Kaza total
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Köprülü 32,843 64.0 18,093 35.2 420 0.8 0 - 51,356 100%
Tikveş 21,319 51.3 19,909 47.8 260 0.6 32 0.1 41,520 100
Gevgili 5,784 14.9 17,063 44.0 14,558 37.5 1,402 3.6 38,807 100
Toyran 5,605 20.6 19,423 58.2 1,591 5.9 551 2.0 27,170 100
Usturumca 2,974 9.0 15,760 47.7 13,726 41.6 564 1.7 33,024 100
Selanik Vilayet Subtotal 68,525 35.7 90,248 47.0 30,555 15.9 2,549 1.3 191,877 100
Üsküp 22,497 32.1 40,256 57.3 6,655 9.5 762 1.1 70,170 100
Karatova 19,618 81.8 4,332 18.1 33 0.1 0 - 23,985 100
Kumanova 29,478 70.5 12,268 29.3 87 0.2 8 0.0 41,841 100
Planka 18,196 88.1 2,078 10.1 388 1.8 0 - 20,662 100
İştip 17,575 41.6 24,166 57.2 0 - 515 1.2 42,251 100
Kaçana 33,120 59.7 22,239 40.1 83 0.2 0 - 55,442 100
Radovişte 7,364 41.0 10,519 58.5 0 - 97 0.5 17,980 100
Kalkandelen 9,830 22.4 29,212 66.3 4,990 11.3 0 - 44,032 100
Kosova Vilayet Subtotal 157,678 49.8 145,070 45.9 12,236 3.9 1,382 0.4 316,363 100
Monastir 61,494 44.7 30,517 22.2 41,077 29.9 4,365 3.2 137,453 100
Ohri 33,306 63.2 16,360 31.0 3,049 5.8 0 - 52,685 100
Pirlepe 43,763 73.8 14,270 24.0 1,248 2.1 42 0.1 59,327 100
Kirçova 20,879 60.1 13,282 38.8 64 0.2 4 0.0 34,229 100
Monastir Vilayet Subtotal 159,442 56.2 74,429 26.2 45,438 16.0 4,411 1.6 283,694 100
NORTH MACEDONIA borders 385,645 48.7 309,747 39.1 88,229 11.1 8,342 1.1 791,963 100
The kaza of Dibra did not participate in the census.
The "Miscellaneous" category includes, among other things, Jews—numbering 4,274 in Monastir, 724 in Üsküp, 573 in Usturumca, 515 in İştip, 167 in Toyran, etc.; Greek Catholic (Uniate) Bulgarians—numbering 1,402 in Gevgili, 376 in Toyran. etc.; Protestants—numbering 97 in Radovişte, and so on.

Balkan Wars

Main article: Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars consisted of two wars that occurred in 1912 and 1913. The first began on 8 October 1912 when the nations of the Balkan League, who had large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman rule, attacked the Ottoman Empire. It lasted seven months with the Balkan League nations coming up victorious, ending 500 years of Ottoman rule in the Balkans.

Vardar Macedonian cities under Ottoman rule

After falling under Ottoman rule, many mosques and other Islamic buildings, such as the Isa Bey Mosque, were built in the cities like Skopje

During the Ottoman rule of the Balkans, cities experienced many changes with regards to the demographic makeup of their population and the look of their cityscapes. With laws that prohibited Christian buildings from being higher than Islamic ones, the skylines of cities like Üsküp (Skopje) and Manastır (Bitola) were dominated by minarets.

Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi visited the city of Manastır in 1661. He wrote that of the seven mosques in the city at the time, six were built in the 16th century. Most of the mosques constructed on the territory of today's Republic of North Macedonia were square in shape with a three-domed portico and a minaret on the building's right side.

  • Ottoman Manastır (Bitola) in the 1800s Ottoman Manastır (Bitola) in the 1800s
  • Pirlepe (Prilep) at the end of the 19th century Pirlepe (Prilep) at the end of the 19th century
  • Minarets in the Ottoman Üsküp (Skopje) skyline Minarets in the Ottoman Üsküp (Skopje) skyline
  • Ottoman İştip (Štip) Ottoman İştip (Štip)

See also

References

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  3. The last centuries of Byzantium, (1261-1453) by Donald MacGillivray Nicol
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  8. Marinus Barletius: Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum principis
  9. Ursinus, M. (1991). "Manāstir". The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume VI: Mahk–Mid. Leiden and New York: BRILL. pp. 371–372. ISBN 90-04-08112-7.
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  11. Viquesnel, Auguste (1868). Voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe: description physique et géologique de la Thrace (in French). Vol. Tome Premier. Paris: Arthus Betrand. pp. 107, 114–115.
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  14. "The Church of St Spas - Skopje". National Tourism Portal of Macedonia. July 2005. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2010. ...half of it was constructed underground, due to the 17th century edict of the Turkish Sultan that prohibited Christian structures from being higher than mosques.
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