Action (Jizi) (ⅹⅳ-ⅹⅰⅹ c.) – State tax in the Ottoman Empire that the working age of non-Muslim subjects were paid to the state as a sign of obedience and loyalty. In return, these subjects acquired certain civil rights and freedom of religion. Was abolished in the middle of ⅹⅰⅹ c. Synonym: Jizie. Lit.: Hamid Hud Chebegic, Jyzya or Hare, “Attachments for Orientalah Philology and Historew Yugoslavian Naroda under Turkish government”, ⅲ Iv, Sarajevo, 1952-53; Nerkez Samovalagic, Lexicon Islama, Sarajevo, 1990, 163, 239; Aleksandar Matkovski, Resistance in Macedonia at the time of Turkish governance, and Skopje, 1983. Dr. F.
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