THE ASSORTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN ISTANBUL GLIMPSES FROM ISTANBUL AHKÂM REGISTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1757-1760)

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This study, which aims to evaluate the agriculture of Istanbul in the eighteenth-century, is based on the assortment of Istanbul Ahkâm Registers in the period of 1757-1760. In order to classify the provisions of Ahkâm Registers; (a)registry(book) numbers, (b)application areas, (c)conflict issues, (d)the social position of the litigants, (e)the religion of the litigants, and (f)application years were chosen as the basic analysis variables. Each judgement, which were based on this systematic, were examined in themselves. 259 provisions of the agriculture were determined in Istanbul Ahkâm Registers in the period of April 1757-December 1779. The analysis of this Ahkâm Books(between 4-5 books), the maximum provisions were found with 5th part (64.9%) of them. The most problems of the agriculture of Istanbul were “intervention of pasture, plateau, grass, reedy etc”(22%),“get in tax from tax-evader or short-change” (13.9%), and “transition of the miri-land, reedy and rushy by inheritance”(13.5%).Moreover, the most agricultural problems occurred in Üsküdar(46.3%) region. Also, the most agricultural problem in Surici was “migration of reaya to another places” (5 cases and 83.3%); in Galata “devolution and demise of timar-land” (4 cases and 26.7%); in Uskudar “transition of the miri-land, reedy and rushy by inheritance” (22 cases and 18.3%), and in Haslar “intervention of pasture, plateau, grass, reedy etc.” (35 cases and 29.7%). The agricultural problems of Istanbul in the eighteenth-century occurred between the reaya (74.9%). Both the applicants and the complainees were intensity composed by the Muslims reaya which were dwelling in village. It was determined that 59.1% of this agricultural problems occured in the period of 1759-1760.

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18th Century , The Ottoman Agricultural System , The Agriculture of Istanbul , Istanbul Ahkâm Registers

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