ABSTRACT
The urban population of the Yugoslav lands up to 1914 was between half and three-quarters of a million, under 10 per cent of the total population. The existing towns may be grouped in three main types: Slav towns surviving as trading centres since the Middle Ages; towns of the ‘Charshiya’ type, whose life was bound up with the rule of the Turks; newer towns, which had during the past century either come into existence or taken on a new lease of life and importance.
