Vital Cuinet’e Göre XIX. Yüzyıl Sonlarında Balıkesir’in İdari, Demografik ve Sosyo-Ekonomik Yapısı
According to Vital Cuinet, Administrative, Demographic and Socio-Economic Structure of Balıkesir at the end of the XIXth Century

Summary/Abstract: With the weakening of the Anatolian Seljuk State, Balıkesir, which was the center of the Karesi Principality for a period, came under the domination of the Ottoman Empire during the time of Orhan Bey. Balıkesir, which had an important place in the Ottoman economy in terms of underground riches, especially weaving, leather industry and forests, became the center of the Karesi Sanjak, which was connected to the province of Anatolia first and then to the Hudavendigar Province in the Ottoman administrative organization. Vital Cuinet, who served as the General Secretary of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration from 1880 to 1892, visited Anatolia during this duty and examined the socio-economic, demographic and administrative structure of the Ottoman Empire. He had compiled the impressions and data it obtained into a book. The work was published in Paris in 1892 with the name "La Turque D'Asie, Géographie Administrative Statistique Descritive et Raisonnée De L'asie-Mineure" in four volumes. The information obtained by Cuinet, who visited Balıkesir city in 1891, is included in the fourth volume of the work. In this study, the socio-economic structure of the city at the end of the XIXth century has been revealed based on the information of Cuinet about Balıkesir.

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