VIAȚA RELIGIOASĂ ÎN RAIALELE OTOMANE DE PE TERITORIUL ȚĂRII MOLDOVEI (începutul secolului al XVIII-lea – începutul secolului al XIX-lea)

Abstract

The characteristics of these administrative-territorial units were very close to the Ottoman bey-lic in terms of administrative, political, economic and fiscal regimes imposed, but also in what concerned the imposition of Islamic religious institutions in the Christian dominated milieu. In the linguistic and religious sense, the population of the cities and territories conquered by the Ottomans was very diverse. The majority were Eastern Orthodox, Catholics and Monophisite Armenians. After the Ottoman conquest, the proportion of Muslims increased dramatically as compared to the Christian population. This process had as a result, among others, the implantation of Islamic religious institutions in the conquered areas. Only in the second half of the 18th century and beginning of the next one these processes are interrupted, as a result numerous Russian-Ottoman and Russian-Austrian-Ottoman wars. As a consequence, the Islamic population starts to move back to other provinces of the Ottoman Empire.