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Law of the Forest: Early Legal Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Inter-Imperial Transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878–1901

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This article investigates the capacity and quality of governance through the prism of forest use regulation in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the inter-imperial transition between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule. It does so by bringing the question of access to natural resources into the frame of imperial governance formation, which is analyzed from the perspective of legal regulation of ownership and usage rights of forests. The analytical focus is set on the early phase of Austro-Hungarian occupation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was marked by political uncertainties and a legal arena where multiple and often conflicting norms coexisted. It shows how the consolidation process of legal arrangements and administration apparatuses did not follow any linear, teleological development towards a strong imperial state or homogenous Rechtsstaat that simply arrived and set up its governing institutions. Instead, governing bodies soon found their interests clashing with those of other local parties. Bureaucracy developed through time- and place-bound practices, which often had to adjust to complex social and environmental realities. During this process multiple attempts failed, while certain practices were implemented unevenly. In the process of asserting its own interests, the imperial administration relied on Ottoman legislation, which gradually became modified, resulting in legal pluralism and entangled imperial legacies.

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Slavic Review , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , Fall 2022 , pp. 585 - 608
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Footnotes

I would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewers who have helped me to make my arguments stronger. I am infinitely grateful to colleagues and friends who have read and commented on the earlier drafts of this article: Harun Buljina, Keith Chester, Gábor Egry, Cristina Florea, Matthew Goldman, Maximilian Hartmuth, Olof Heilo, Pieter M. Judson, Stefan B. Kirmse, Janet Nielsen, and Ana Sekulić. This article was written as part of the research project “Between the Orient and the Occident: Forest Use Regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina During the Inter-Imperial Transition from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1878–1918.” It was supported by the Swedish Research Council under grant number 2017–00801.

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26. For details, see Selçuk Dursun, “Forest and the State: History of Forestry and Forest Administration in the Ottoman Empire” (PhD diss., Sabançı University Istanbul, 2007), chapter 3.

27. Dursun, Forest and the State, 235.

28. The Ottoman classification of forest lands followed from the broader classification of landed property, which then encompassed the forest that was on the land. See Dursun, Forest and the State, 237.

29. Branislav Begović, Razvojni put šumske privrede u Bosni i Hercegovini u periodu austro-ugarske privrede sa posebnim osvrtom na eksploataciju šuma i industrijsku preradu drveta (Sarajevo, 1978), 11; Sugar, Industrialization of Bosnia and Hercegovina, 131; Dževad Juzbašić, Privreda i politika u Bosni i Hercegovini pod austrougarskom upravom (Sarajevo, 2002), 160.

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31. Another decree was issued on August 1, 1879. Departing from the Ottoman ownership categories of forestlands, the new occupying power aimed now at demarcating private, state-owned, and vakıf forests, thus trying to give them practical meaning by a clear determination of boundaries. This also failed. For the decree, see “Circularerlass der Landesregierung in Sarajevo vom 1. August 1879, Nr. 14276, Fin 4160, betreffend die Ausscheidung der Privatforste von den Staats- und Vakufforsten,” in Sammlung der für Bosnien und die Hercegovina erlassenen Gesetze, Verordnungen und Normalweisungen, 1878–1880, Band 3, I. Theil (Vienna, 1881), 778–79.

32. “Verordnung der Landesregierung für Bosnien und die Hercegovina vom 31. Dezember 1881, Zahl 26385, über das Verfahren zur Klarstellung des Eigenthums- und sonstigen Besitz- und Nutzungsrechte und Ansprüche an Waldgründe,” in Sammlung der Gesetze und Verordnungen für Bosnien und die Hercegovina, Jahrgang 1881 (Sarajevo, 1881), 734–40.

33. Schmid, Bosnien und Hercegovina, 442.

34. Arhiv Bosne i Hercegovine, Zajedničko ministarstvo finansija, Sarajevo (ABiH, ZMF), 1883, Opšti spisi, Nr. 2545 (Bericht der Landesregierung für Bosnien und die Hercegovina), May 12, 1883.

35. Such instrumental deployment of Ottoman documents by land-owning parties was also practiced during the Ottoman period. Ana Sekulić’s excellent study of the Franciscan monastery in Fojnica illustrates the employment of Ottoman documents as a legal strategy for establishing legitimacy among the Catholic population. See Ana Sekulić, “From a Legal Proof to a Historical Fact: Trajectories of an Ottoman Document in a Franciscan Monastery, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62, no. 5/6 (2019): 925–62.

36. AT-OeStA, KA KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-503 (Ergebnisse der Forstexpertise in Bosnien und der Herzegovina während des Sommers 1879, 1880), 24–25.

37. All documents related to the court case of Avdo Kobilica, which went on for several years, are put together in a bundle under the title “Waldansprüche, Bezirk Zenica, Fall Avdo Kobilica” with the archival signature ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–34/20.

38. ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–34/20 (Fall Avdo Kobilica, Odluka kotarskog suda u Zenici, Nr. 186), March 29, 1882; and (Odluka vrhovnog suda u Sarajevu Nr. 1898), May 13, 1882.

39. Dimitz, Die forstlichen Verhältnisse, 89.

40. ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–54/55, Nr. 3 (Brief vom Forstbeamten Johann Marhula), January 15, 1884.

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42. Erläuternde Bemerkungen zu dem Entwurfe eines Grundbuchs-Gesetzes für Bosnien und die Hercegovina (Sarajevo, 1890), 12.

43. Dursun, Forest and the State, 220–21.

44. AT-OeStA AVA, Nachlässe von Karl Freiherr von Krauss junior: IV, B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide 1881 (Antrag betreffend des Begriffes Forstfrevel und deren Behandlung), October 14, 1884.

45. “Circularerlass der Landesregierung in Sarajevo vom 3. August 1879, Nr. 14451, Fin. 4223, betreffend das Holzbezugsrecht der Bevölkerung,” in: Sammlung der für Bosnien und die Hercegovina erlassenen Gesetze, 779–80.

46. “Verordnung der Landesregierung in Sarajevo vom 15. August 1879, Nr. 9504, Fin. 2570, betreffend die Ausübung der Viehweide in Staatswaldungen,” in: Sammlung der für Bosnien und die Hercegovina erlassenen Gesetze, 780–81.

47. Schmid, Bosnien und Hercegovina, 450.

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49. ABiH, ZVS, 1883, K. 29, šifra 17/2–18, Forst- und Waldangelegenheiten/Waldstreitigkeiten.

50. AT-OeStA AVA, Nachlässe von Karl Freiherr von Krauss junior: IV, B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide (Bericht des Forstbeamten aus Maglaj an Karl Freiherr von Krauss), October 8, 1881.

51. Dursun, Forest and the State, 234.

52. For the concept of “weapons of the weak,” see James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Every Day Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985).

53. AT-OeStA AVA, Nachlässe von Karl Freiherr von Krauss junior: IV, B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide (Das Justizdepartement in der Frage der Regelung der Forstangelegenheiten), October 17, 1881.

54. AT-OeStA AVA, Nachlässe von Karl Freiherr von Krauss junior: IV, B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide (Bericht des Forstbeamten aus Maglaj an Karl Freiherr von Krauss), October 8, 1881.

55. Ibid.

56. AT-Oest AVA, Nachlässe von Karl Freiherr von Krauss junior: IV, B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide (Brief des Bezirksvorstehers in Maglaj an Carl von Krauss), October 8, 1881.

57. On the cadaster as a political means of a modernizing state in the context of the Habsburg Monarchy, see Kurt Scharr, “The Habsburg Cadastral Registration System in the Context of Modernization,” in Hannes Siegrist and Dietmar Müller, eds., Property in East Central Europe. Notions, Institutions and Practices of Landownership in East Central Europe (New York, 2015), 100–16.

58. Benton, A Search for Sovereignty.

59. AT- OeStA KA, KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-500 F, 34, Protokolle der Beratungen der Kommission in Betreff der Einführung eines Grundsteuer-Katasters in Bosnien und die Hercegovina.

60. Raphael Lutz, “Die Verwissenschaftlichung des Sozialen als methodische und konzeptionelle Herausforderung für eine Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 22, no. 2 (1996): 165–93.

61. Bericht über die Verwaltung von Bosnien und der Hercegovina (Vienna 1906), 488–89.

62. Among others see ABiH, ZVS, 1886, K. 45, šifra 5–64/549 (Zaključni šumski ugovori izmedju Zemaljske vlade i Morpurgo und Parente iz Trsta).

63. Bericht 1906, 488.

64. AT- OeStA KA, KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-501 F, 34, Protokolle der Beratungen der Kommission in Betreff der Einführung eines Grundsteuer-Katasters in Bosnien und die Hercegovina 1880–1885.

65. AT- OeStA KA KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-500 F, K.k. Katastral=Vermessungs=Direktion für Bosnien Nr. 2530 (Oberst Roskievic Promemoria über die Errichtung von Instruktions Abtheilungen für Adjunkte), November, 1881.

66. AT- OeStA KA KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-501 F, 34, (Protokoll der 35 Beratung der Kommission in Betreff der Einführung eines Grundsteuer-Katasters für Bosnien und die Herzegovina), December 19, 1884.

67. AT- OeStA KA KPS LB K VII m, 46–4-500 F, 34, (Protokoll der 34 Beratung der Kommission in Betreff der Einführung eines Grundsteuer-Katasters in Bosnien und die Herzegovina), December 15, 1884.

68. Philippe Gelez, “Les problématiques évolutions de l’estimation fiscale des biens fonciers en Bosnie-Herzégovine durant l’époque austro-hongroise (1878–1918),” in Florence Bourillon and Nadine Vivier, eds., La mesure cadastrale: Estimer la valeur du foncier (Rennes, 2012), 61–72.

69. On the land register as a tool for reordering property relations in southeastern Europe, see Dietmar Müller, Bodeneigentum und Nation: Rumänien, Jugoslawien und Polen im europäischen Vergleich, 1918–1948 (Göttingen, 2020).

70. Mehmed Bećić, “Pravni transplanti i pravni pluralizam. Transformacija stvarnog prava u Bosni i Hercegovina 1878–1918” (PhD diss., Sarajevo University, 2018), 324.

71. “Verordnung über die Verleihung von Tapien auf Grundstücke, welche zum Waldlande gehören,” in: Sammlung der Gesetze und Verordnungen für Bosnien und Hercegovina, Jahrgang 1884 (Sarajevo, 1884), 82–86.

72. ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–54/5, Nr. 10226 (Amsterrinnerung dass die Ediktalaufforderung betreffend die Anmeldung der Eigenthumsansprüche auf Waldland für das Bezirk Prnjavor zu verlautbaren wäre), July 4, 1884.

73. Later on, the Department was split into two bureaus, one for the establishment of the land registry and another one for the regulation of forest ownership.

74. ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–54/5, Nr. 10226.

75. ABiH, ZVS, 1884, K. 38, šifra 42–54/5, Nr. 1060 I (Brief von Kállay wegen Änderungen der Verordnung in Bezug auf Anspruch auf Waldland), May 5, 1884.

76. “1908, maj 2.—Beč. Zajedničko ministarstvo financija poziva Zemaljsku vladu da u pregovorima o agrarnom pitanju ne popušta muslimanskom Egzekutivnom odboru preko direktiva,” in Ferdo Hauptmann, ed., Borba Muslimana Bosne i Hercegovina za vjersku i vakufsko-mearifsku autonomiju (Sarajevo, 1967), 561–64.

77. “1908, maj 11.—Sarajevo. Zemaljska vlada obavještava Zajedničko ministarstvo financija o rezultatu pregovora s egzekutivnim odborom,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana Bosne i Hercegovina, 564–98, here 570.

78. For Ottoman Miri-regime among others, see Donald Quataert and Halil İnalcık, eds., An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1914 (Cambridge, Eng., 1995), 103–78.

79. Huricihan İslamoğlu, “Property as a Contested Domain: A Reevalution of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858,” in Roger Owen, ed., New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), 3–61, here 28.

80. Anton Minkov, “Ottoman Tapu Title Deeds in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Origin, Typology and Diplomatics,” Islamic Law and Society 7, no. 1 (2000): 65–101, here 66.

81. Eduard Eichler, Das Justizwesen in Bosnien und der Hercegovina (Vienna, 1889), 36–37; for a detailed discussion on the interpretation of miri ownership by different imperial legal experts, see Bećić, Pravni transplanti, 312–20.

82. AT-OeStA AVA, Nachlässe an Krauss sen. und jun., B. 5.7., Unterlagen und Berichte, Forst und Weide (Antrag betreffend der Begriffes Forstfrevel und deren Behandlung), October 14, 1884.

83. “Verordnung über die Verleihung von Tapien auf Grundstücke, welche zum Waldlande gehören,” in: Sammlung der Gesetze und Verordnungen, Jahrgang 1884, 84–85.

84. Bericht über die Verwaltung von Bosnien und der Hercegovina (Vienna, 1910), 148.

85. Bericht 1910, 149.

86. Bericht 1906, 324–27.

87. Eichler, Das Justizwesen in Bosnien und der Hercegovina, 303.

88. Schmid, Bosnien und Hercegovina, 442–43.

89. “Zemaljska vlada obavještava Zajedničko ministarstvo financija o rezultatu pregovora s egzekutivnim odborom,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana, 571.

90. “1895. Početkom novembra—Molba Muharem-bega Teskeredžića—Dervišpašića iz Travnika i ostali veleposjednika iz okružja Travničkog i okružja Sarajevskoga, kojom mole da im se milostivo popravi ono što im je nepravo učinjeno te se i sada čini—podnesena caru,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana, 63–68.

91. Aydin Babuna, Die nationale Entwicklung der bosnischen Muslime mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der österreichisch-ungarischen Periode (Frankfurt am Main, 1996), 87.

92. “1899, Maj 4.—Sarajevo. Kutschera javlja Kallayu o putu po Posavini povodom žalbe begova iz Posavine na materijalne i posjedničke teškoće,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana, 83–88, here 85.

93. “1901. Januar 6.—Beč. Kallay saopćava Kutscheri svoj stav prema molbi Bakir-bega Tuzlića za dodjelu šume Jesenica,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana, 119–20.

94. Donia, Islam under the Double Eagle, 189; Babuna, Die nationale Entwicklung der bosnischen Muslime, 119–22; Bougarel, Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 17–20.

95. Robert J. Donia, Sarajevo: A Biography (Ann Arbor, 2006), 97.

96. Husnija Kamberović, Begovski zemljišni posjedi u Bosni i Hercegovini od 1878. do 1918. godine (Zagreb, 2003), 463.

97. “Kallay saopćava Kutscheri svoj stav prema molbi Bakir-bega Tuzlića,” in Hauptmann, Borba Muslimana, 119–20.

98. ABiH, ZVS, 1889, K. 76, šifra 37–34/8, Nr. 74552 (Erlass des gemeinsamen Ministeriums betreffs der gestellten Anträge bezüglich der Verleihung von Waldparzellen im Bezikre Tešanj, Fall Sakalović Zahl 58980/89), August 26, 1889.