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A Defter (plural: Defterleri) was a type of tax register in the Ottoman Empire. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads (adult males and widows), ethnicity/religion (because these could affect tax liabilities/exemptions), and land use.[1] The defter-i hakâni was a land registry, also used for tax purposes.[2]
These records are useful for historians.
Some Ottoman officials responsible for these tax registries were known as defterdars.
The term is derived from Greek diphthera διφθέρα meaning book (having pages of goat parchment, used along with papyrus as paper in Ancient Greece) borrowed into Arabic دفتر: daftar meaning book.
The term 'diphtheria' or 'diphtheritis', acute contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs-Loffler bacillus) has the same origin[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Cosgel (2004). "Ottoman Tax Registers (Tahrir Defterleri)". Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 37 (2): 87–100. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ Barnes (1987). An introduction to religious foundations in the Ottoman Empire. Brill. p. 151. ISBN 978-90-04-08652-4.
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