Београдска митрополија по попису из 1826.

Nedeljko, Radosavljević

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After the Second Serbian Uprising, the joint Serbo-Turkish administration was established in the Belgrade Pašaluk, and lasted until the creation of the Principality of Serbia in 1830. Throughout its duration, the Serbian authorities have considerably gained in power, while the Osmanic ones have gradually decreased its influence. During the 1820’s, a series of apprehensions occurred between the Serbian national authorities which were about to be established, and the archpriests of the Grand Church, who governed the Orthodox eparchies in the Belgrade Pašaluk. These apprehensions concerned the authority issues as well as the pecuniary obligations of the believers towards the mitropolitans and the Patriarchate. The first Register of the Belgrade Bishopric, constituted of Serbian authorities, was carried out at the beginning of 1826, after these conflicts have been resolved and the position of the Serbian Prince Miloš Obrenović has prevailed. The Register included the enumeration of the towns, villages and Christian households for the circumfused region the bishopric englobed, while the information concerning the towns of Belgrade and Kragujevac was absent. On the basis of these information, further comprehension of the changes occurred in the structure of the Belgrade Bishopric, as well as of the demographic changes in the region it englobed is made possible. Consequently, the Register allows us to establish the maximum amount of the mitropolitans’ income in that period, and it also enables comparison with the set of circumstances existing before and during the First Serbian Uprising. The information regarding the monasteries and their villages attest the economic power some monasteries had, which is proved to be the valuable fact for the study of the church history likewise. This Register may, altogether with some other sources of Serbian, Greek and Osmanic origin, serve as a sound starting point for the examination of certain issues concerning the church history, and for the exploration of the demographic questions as well.

demography, Ottoman Empire, Belgrade bishopric, Belgrade pašaluk, church history, Ecumenial patriarchate, metropolitan's income