1. Empire and Its Subjects Provincial Administration Timar system Ottoman rule in Aleppo and Damacus

2. Timar system
timar: a fief with an annual value of less than twenty thousand akçes, whose revenues were held in return for military service
cadastral survey (tahrir): survey and record of the sources of revenue in each sanjak, carried out by officials sent from the center
types of property
miri: land belonging to the Sultan
mülk: freehold property
vakıf: revenue allocated to a certain pious endowment
characteristics of the timar system
-peasants paid to the timar-holder: prescribed taxes in kind and annual tax of 22 akçes, a tax originally in lieu of services
-the peasantry was free- there was no subinfeudation
-timars were not heritable
-state ownership remained dominant
-timar holder lacked judicial power and full administrative authority

3. Administration of Provinces Under “InDirect” Ottoman Rule
Salyane provinces
Janissary garrisons, a governor, a defterdar (head of the treasury), and a kadi (judge).
The governor after paying all the military and administrative expanses had to remit to the capital a fixed annual sum (salyane)
Example: Egypt
hükümet
hereditary lands belonging to the tribal chieftains.
All the revenue belonged to the tribal bey, who was however required, on the Sultan’s command, to contribute a fixed number of troops to the army.
In the important cities of the region the sultan appointed a kadi (judge) and stationed a Janissary garrison.
Example: Khanate of Bitlis

4. İstanbul Matrakcı Nasuh, Beyan-ı Menazil-i Sefer-i Irakeyn (Halting Stations of the Eastern Campaign), dating from b

6. Maltepe and Kıssahan Bridge 9b 10a

7. 16b

8. Konya 17a

9. Kayseri 18b and 19a

10. Sivas 19b and 20a

11. Derbend-i Alagöz 24a

12. What are these buildings? 88a

13. 25a

14. Tebriz 27b and 28a

15. Sultaniye 31b and 32a

16. Kasr-ı Şirin 42b and 43a

17. Bagdad 47b and 48a

18. Seyh Abdilkadir Gilani 49a

19. 63b

20. Halep (Aleppo) 105b

21. Adiliye Mosque, Aleppo, mid-sixteenth century

22. Mosque of Behram Paşa, late sixteenth century

23. Vezir Han, Aleppo, late seventeenth century

25. Mosque of Sinan Paşa (governor of the city, also served as a grand vezir), Damascus, Late sixteenth century

26. From the chronicle of the barber Ibn Budayr
THREE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DAMASCENES BEGIN THE HISTORIES OF THEIR CITIES From the chronicle of the alim Ibn Kannan
And the Sultan of the Rumi, Arabi and some of the Ajami lands is… the Grand Vizier (in Istanbul) is… the Governor (of Damascus) is… the qadi of Damascus is… the mufti of Istanbul is… the mufti of Damascus is… the teachers (of Damascus) are … and the Hajj commander (in Damascus) is…
From the chronicle of the barber Ibn Budayr
The first day of 1154/1741 was a Saturday. The common people [a‘wamm] were saying that a great earthquake will take place in Damascus as a result of which many places will be destroyed and men will turn into women.
From the chronicle of Mikhail Burayk, a greek-orthodox priest
Know, that I, the beggar (al-faqir), the author, the priest (al-khuri) Mikhail Burayk, have always desired to read the history of the Damascenes, and of what happened in the city of Damascus in past ages with regard to the patriarchs and the clergy, and of the just and unjust administration of its rulers…

27. İstanbul: Şairlerin Şehri
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Zeynep Altok
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi