A Modeling, Administrative, Social and Fiscal Structure of Ottoman Rural History Extracting from the Datum, Belonging to the Town of Karayaka (Ziğdi)

Abstract

In the Ottoman State tax registration notebooks contain social and fiscal datum belonging to the public. The tax registration notebooks should be examined for rural history writing. In our study, the tax registration notebook of the village Ziğdi is scrutinized. The modeling of the Ottoman Stat for the social and fiscal structure of the rural population has been struggled to detect. In this study, it has been defined that the Ottoman state creates a kind of modeling that depicts the poor and rich along with the middle class in the Ottoman society. Same modeling also goes for the Ottoman rural economy. The affects of rich families in the social structure of the village and their source of wealth can be depicted. These rich families who have mills, baths, shops, fields, and animal herds within the range of reasonable economic value also had an immense influence in the rural economic struggle of the peasantry daily life. The Ottoman modeling of detecting the wealth owner in the rural area by looking in to the amount of estate, of animal herds and of the other incomes was successful. © 2020, Abidin Temizer. All rights reserved.