{"title":"Women owning Property in mid-19th Century Serbia","authors":"Siegfried Gruber, Daniel-Armin Đumić","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v33i2.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Serbian census of 1862/63 includes information about the property and income of the census population. Most property was owned by men, but a minority of women had some possession of their own. Most of them were either heirs of their husband or their father. This paper will take a closer look at these propertied women and the characteristics of them and their property.","PeriodicalId":40507,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Balkanistic Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v33i2.3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Serbian census of 1862/63 includes information about the property and income of the census population. Most property was owned by men, but a minority of women had some possession of their own. Most of them were either heirs of their husband or their father. This paper will take a closer look at these propertied women and the characteristics of them and their property.
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"Balkanistic Forum" is published since 1992 as a yearly edition of the “Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization” to the South-Western University “Neofyt Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Since 1995 it is published in thematic issues -3 issues per year. The main task of the Journal is to provide free forum for discussing important historical and present problems of the Balkans in European and wider context. It is designed as an interdisciplinary journal uniting the efforts of specialists in History, Sociology, Literature, Anthropology, Linguistics, Culture Studies.