Promotion of the Book “Migrations and the Bosnian Eyalet 1683-1718” by Dr. Ramiza Smajić Held

Promotion of the historical monograph “Migrations and the Bosnian Eyalet 1683-1718” by Dr. Ramiza Smajić, senior research associate at the Institute for History, was held in the university of Sarajevo Rectorate’s Ceremonial Hall on Tuesday, 5 December 2023,.

This book is the result of a doctoral dissertation that was defended in 2019 at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Nenad Moačanin. At the same time, it was a research project as part of the work plan and program of the UNSA Institute for History, in whose edition it was published in the edition of the historical monograph no. 24.

In addition to the author Dr. Smajić, the promoters of the book were Dr. Safet Bandžović, scientific adviser at the UNSA Institute for History, who is also the editor of the publication, UNSA Faculty of Law professor emeritus Enes Durmišević and Prof. Dr. Senadin Lavić, UNSa Faculty of Political Sciences.

The promotion was moderated by Dr. Sedad Bešlija, Director of the Institute for History.

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Academician Dragi Gjorgiev, Director of the Institute of National History of Macedonia in his review of the book, among other things, wrote:

“Taking into account that no large and intensive migrations can be limited even in ethnic, and even less in geographical boundaries, then it can be said that this work by dr. Ramize Smajić goes beyond the boundaries of the Bosnian Eyalet, which is the main area of research, and refers to a much wider geographical and more diverse ethnic area, which gives the work an international dimension and represents an excellent predisposition for it to be an important and inevitable reference for all Ottomanists who deal with migration flows in the Ottoman context, especially on Balkan and European soil at the turn of the 17^th and 18^th centuries.”

In his review of the book, Dr. Senad Hasanagić from Mostar wrote:

“Thanks to Professor Ramiza Smajić, this work also contributed to greater knowledge about an exodus in the heart of Europe in which Muslims disappeared from Hungary, Slavonia, Lika, Dalmatia, Krbava and Boka Kotorska at the end of the 17^th century. This exodus, which due to its real consequences and intent can be characterized as genocide, should be named as a historical event, investigated more thoroughly and connected, properly characterized. From those events, a mosaic should be assembled, a significant part of which is related to migrations in Bosnia and the situations in various social aspects that have arisen as a result of these migrations. One significant part of that mosaic is provided by this book. Thus, at the same time, a contribution was made to a better understanding of the historical continuity of the meeting of civilizations, but also of destruction and persecution, from the defeat at Vienna to Srebrenica.”