Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi (Jan 2017)
Nomads within the Scope of Ottoman Financial Policies in the First Half of the XVIIIth Century
Abstract
Ottoman Empire was able to organize the nomads under certain financial and administrative arrangements in order to operate the control mechanism administratively and financially to levy regularly. Crowded nomads had a certain administrative-financial order -mostly on the appearance of attendants like chamberlain and voivoda- especially in terms of their population potential and habitats. Rather than such crowded groups, smaller nomads constitute the subject of this study. Such small groups were gathered in two-way profit based on the common financial practices –muqataa and ocaklik- of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, on behalf of creating a continuous source of income both for central state treasury and for meeting the needs of the castle functionary and soldiers in the region. This study aims to show how the nomads in Diyarbekir province, which were ranked as taxpayers or living in the state, were organized.
