Topics of the Symposium

1. Ancient and Medieval Balkans
2. Pre-Ottoman Balkans
3. Establishment of Ottoman Rule in the Balkans
4. Ottoman Policy of Conquest, Settlement and Colonization in the Balkans
5. Land Administration, Taxes, Administrative-Financial System
6. Islamization in the Balkans during the Ottoman Period
7. Sufism in the Balkans
8. Balkan Cities during the Ottoman Period: Population, Production and Trade
9. Ottoman Waqfs in the Balkans
10. Ottoman Culture and Daily Life
11. Language, Culture and Literature in the Balkans
12. Native Peoples of the Balkans
13. The Perception of Turk/Muslim and Ottoman in Local Sources
14. Administration of the non-Muslim Subjects
15. Nationalism and the Foundation of Nation-States in the Balkans
16. The Balkans and Great Powers 1774-1918
17. Ottoman-Russo Wars in the Balkans
18. The Balkans in the Ottoman process of modernization
19. The Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
20. Migrations to Anatolia from the Balkans
21. Ottoman Legacy and the Balkans
22. Turkey and the Balkans in the 20^th Century
23. Minorities in the Balkan States
24. The Balkans From the Disintegration of Yugoslavia until Today
25. Historiography: Basic Approaches and Problems