مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A Demographic Assay into the Population of Kaleici, Antalya According to Data from the First Modern General Census of the Ottoman Empire

Abstract :

Through research on the population of a society, it is possible to obtain important information concerning both the socio-economic and socio-cultural aspects of that society. This study examines the male Muslim population of Kaleiçi, the oldest and the core settlement of Antalya, through the data obtained in the course of the first modern general census of the Ottoman state, begun in 1830 and completed in 1831, in which only data from the male population was taken. These records are employed not only to determine the number of the male population but also to determine other demographic elements. In addition, the differences between the census results that the records contain and our own census results are shown. The first general census book of Antalya dated 1830 (BOA, NFS.d.3190) containing the results of the census of the Muslim male population for military purposes was the primary source employed in this study with the aim of providing a contribution to the literature through examining the demographic elements recorded in the first general census of 13 neighbourhoods within Kaleiçi, Antalya.