Temettuat Defterlerine Göre Karadere Divanı
Dividend Book of Karadere

Summary/Abstract: The Ottoman State's tax collection methods and also rates changed with the change of boundaries. Especially deteriorating central authority and received successive defeats in the wars led to weakening of the public purse. The Ottoman State which did not obtain the desired result of reform movements made some arrangements in order to correct bad going over time. One of the most important of these arrangements was the taxes to be taken from the people. The cash money to be collected with taxes for treasure would give the opportunity to move in a planned manner to the statesmen in the economic area. During the period from 1844 to 1845, a new registration work called " Dividend Book " was initiated in order to collect tax more equitably by determining the existence of land, real estate, animals, goods and goods possessed by the people in the geography where the state is dominant. Dividend Books shed light especially on the history and other disciplines in point of showing up the economic and social situation of that period. In Dividend Books the income that dwellings had in a year and the property that they had, were recorded then taxed in the name of the householder. In this way, the profession of the people mentioned in the book, the amount and kind of land they work, the amount of product obtained and the number of animals were delivered to the center.The Dividend book, the subject of our research, belongs the year of 1844 (A.H 1260-1261) of Karadere Quarter that located on 20 km north of today's Adapazarı district, Sakarya province, is registered in The Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office with the number BOA, ML. VRD. TMT, 4183. At that time, this settlement called the Karadere Divanı was pretty croweded dwelling unit with 67 households when compared to the other Divans of the district. Karadere Divan, which was on the way to Kandıra-Adapazarı, was the most crowded Muslim settlement of Kaymas borough.

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