The topic of this article is the 11-verse historical poem in the Tomb of Sheikh Mohammed of Užice located in the town of Rožaje within the borders of the Republic of Montenegro. Literary work, one of the most striking signs of Ottoman civilization, disappeared in the course of time. Those which have survived to the present day are very valuable documents of history. One of these is undoubtedly the historical poem found in the Tomb of Sheikh Muhammad of Užice and related to the construction of the tomb in the town of Rožaje located in the middle of the Balkans. This piece of work has literary and historical importance and is preserved inside the tomb. Chronogram is an art used to determine the date of an event through Abjad calculation. Although historical poems maintain individual aspects in the poetry forms of classical literature, they are the types that have the strongest ties with social life and remarkably cast light upon the various aspects of social life. The method of this study was determined as reading, writing in original and transcription and evaluating the text of the historical poem in the tomb located in Rožaje. The historical text, which was the topic of the study, was identified and photographed at its locality. Then, after the processes of reading and deciphering, the text was presented in this format for the first time.

This study is focused on the remains of Islamic tombstones (nišani) which are currently located in the front yard of the Pirot Museum of Ponišavlje. Among other exhibits, the museum has 14 of these tombstones, or their remaining parts, with accompanying labels on display. They date back to the period of the Turkish rein, which lasted since 1385/86 to 1877, with short periods of break. In this study, the images of these tombstones have been provided, followed by their Arabic and Latin transcripts and appropriate translation into Serbian. Firstly, the study presents the texts from the tombstone labels, which, although mostly incomplete, still unravels some data and phrases useful for drawing conclusions about who some of the well-respected figures in Pirot in the 18th and 19th centuries were and what their tombstones looked like.

Предмет интересовања овог рада су османски (старотурски) документи који се налазе у Музеју Понишавља у Пироту. Пиротски крај је, са краћим прекидима, у периоду од 1385/86. до 1877. године био под турском влашћу, што је свакако оставило трагове оријенталне културе коју су на Балкан са собом донели Турци Османлије. Писани документи из тог периода веома су драгоцена грађа за проучавање прошлости ових крајева. Међутим, поред тога што је до данас веома мало сачуваних докумената, основни проблем је и непознавање писма и језика којег су користили Турци Османлије. Једанаест докумената који су представљени у овом раду различитог су садржаја, то су судска решења, писмене потврде, признанице о уплатама пореза, тапије и путна исправа. Узимајући у обзир да су теме докумената различите, у овом раду се не залази у детаљну анализу истих, већ се рад презентује као