Osmanlı Harp Malzemelerinin Arşiv Kaynaklarından Kale Mühimmat Müfredat Defterleri
Fortress Ammunition Count Registers From Archive Sources of Ottoman War Materials

Author(s): Samettin Başol
Subject(s): Military history, The Ottoman Empire, Source Material
Published by: Özgür Yayın Dağıtım Ltd. Şti.
Keywords: Ottoman military historiography; The Ottoman Empire; War materials;
Summary/Abstract: As a field of research, Ottoman war history become enriched on the aspect of resources, research papers and methods. Particularly new findings are on the production of weaponsand their technology, military installations, logistics of war, strategies of wars, provisions, soldier enrollment, payments and assignment. Those developments on the subject is thanks to discoveries about the field evidences, new archive sources, maps, and similar collections and economic supports to the researches. Its been known that Ottomans recorded their actions since the beginning. Because of this there are lots of diffrent kinds of written sources in the “Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı”. Those documents are particular importance to the states, historians and institutions. One of those particular written source is “Kale Mühimmat Defterleri”. Those series of documents includes the primary informations on Ottoman castles and castle organisation and ammunition. This work focuses on the castle ammunion and syllabus records wich has a list concerning on the ammunition and other tools wich used at war. The aims of this work are to describe the form and function of those records and explain their contents and survey their importance on the basis of military and organisational history. To make clearly understandable the informations on those records have, five of them selected to be examined. And on the proper places in the work other similar records used to enrichment of the subject. Document examination method has been used this work and within the plan the informations on those records listed.

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