SOME NOTES ON OTTOMAN TAX FARMING IN HUNGARY
SOME NOTES ON OTTOMAN TAX FARMING IN HUNGARY

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of an “inventory of tax farms in the province of Buda” (defter-i fihrist-i mukataa-i vilayet- i Budun), the paper describes the administration of Ottoman tax farms in Hungary in a comparative way (the reference area being the Lower Danube). Its main concern is the sixteenth-century practice but the seventeenth-century transformations are also touched upon. The widely held view that the seventeenth century saw the rapid spread of tax farming, is untenable for Hungary; in this period, the tax farms were increasingly replaced by “corporate estates” (ocaklik) not only in Hungary but in other parts of the empire as well.

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