Bartın Kazasında Gayrimüslim Nüfusun Gelişimi (1831- 1923)
The Development of the Non-Muslım Populatıon in Bartın Kaza (1831-1923)

Summary/Abstract: The 19th century was the period of the most intense population mobility both in the world and in the Ottoman Empire. Migrations and displacements due to political and economic crises made the determination of population numbers more important. Since the early period of the Ottoman Empire, population records were kept in order to determine the subjects who were taxpayers and who had reached the age of military service. In this respect, reaya and jizye registers, provincial salnamals and other records kept by the Ottoman Empire to determine the population are important in urban history studies as they provide important information to understand the non-Muslim population structure in cities. In this study, it has been tried to determine the population structure of non-Muslims living in Bartın, which was a part of Bolu Sanjak of Kastamonu province from the first half of the 19th century until the proclamation of the Republic in 1923. In this direction, the non-Muslim population structure of Bartın, a typical Anatolian city where Muslims and non-Muslims lived together, was first examined in detail by using reaya and jizye books between 1831-1847, and then the amount of non-Muslims in the city after it gained accident status in 1867 was tried to be revealed by supporting it with the Vilayet Salnamas, special census documents in the State archive and records kept by foreigners. Thus, the study analyzes the 90-year course of change and development of the non-Muslim population in Bartın as a whole.

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