HISTORICAL CHANGE (XIX and XX CENTURY) OF ERZURUM CITY POPULATION IN THE PERIOD OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE Cover Image

ERZURUM ŞEHRİ NÜFUSUNUN OSMANLI DEVLETİ DÖNEMİNDEKİ (XIX. ve XX YÜZYIL) TARİHSEL DEĞİŞİMİ
HISTORICAL CHANGE (XIX and XX CENTURY) OF ERZURUM CITY POPULATION IN THE PERIOD OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Author(s): Serap Kayserili
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Cultural history, Regional Geography, Culture and social structure , Social development, Demography and human biology, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; Erzurum; Population; Centuses;

Summary/Abstract: As is known, there are not any sources available on the occasion of we can use definite statements about the change of Erzurum population with settlements that based on b.c.e 4000 in a plain at past. It is not possible to get a statistical data belongs to that years by the reason of dominated communities for centuries did not conduct the census or any tangible evidence does not existed even if they did. Notwithstanding, there could be obtained information about city population based upon the data by several itinerants and statesmen. After entered under Ottoman Empire’s rule, the records of city population became obtainable via either Cadastral Record Books or Dividend Books. Population data of Erzurum in Ottoman Empire period could be obtained especially in censuses conducted as from the nineteenth century. According to the results, determined that Erzurum population changed as a result of administrative changes and wars, and consequently showed various increasing and decreasing.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 158-163
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Turkish