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Taxation in the Ottoman Empire

Index Taxation in the Ottoman Empire

Taxation in the Ottoman Empire changed drastically over time, and was a complex patchwork of different taxes, exemptions, and local customs. [1]

35 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abdulmejid I, Agaluk, Avarız, Belgrade, Byzantium, Chiflik, Corvée, Defter, Eastern Orthodox Church, Economic history of the Ottoman Empire, Fertile Crescent, Haraç, Hass (Ottoman), Hatt-i humayun, Ispendje, Jizya, Kadi (Ottoman Empire), Mamluk, Merdiban, Muafiyet, Noel Malcolm, Ottoman Empire, Resm-i çift, Romani people, Rumelia Eyalet, Simony, Sublime Porte, Tanzimat, Tax, Temettu, Timar, Vlach (Ottoman social class), Vlachs, Waqf.

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate (or ٱلْخِلافَةُ ٱلْعَبَّاسِيَّة) was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abdulmejid I

Abdülmecid I (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجيد اول ‘Abdü’l-Mecīd-i evvel; 23/25 April 182325 June 1861), also known as Abdulmejid and similar spellings, was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839.

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Agaluk

An Agaluk (Ağalık) was a feudal unit of the Ottoman Empire governed by an ''aga'', or lord.

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Avarız

Avarız was a tax in the Ottoman Empire, an annual cash tax paid by households registered in a defter.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Byzantium

Byzantium or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) was an ancient Greek colony in early antiquity that later became Constantinople, and later Istanbul.

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Chiflik

Chiflik, or chiftlik (Ottoman Turkish: Çiftlik; çiflig; чифлик, chiflik; чифлиг, čiflig; τσιφλίκι; читлук/čitluk), is a Turkish term for a system of land management in the Ottoman Empire.

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Corvée

Corvée is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, which is intermittent in nature and which lasts limited periods of time: typically only a certain number of days' work each year.

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Defter

A defter (plural: defterler) was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Economic history of the Ottoman Empire

Economic history of the Ottoman Empire covers the period 1299–1923.

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Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.

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Haraç

Haraç (խարջ/kharj, harač, arač, арач, χαράτσι/charatsi, harač) was a land tax levied on non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire.

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Hass (Ottoman)

In the Ottoman administrative-military classification of land, a hâss was an estate with revenue.

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Hatt-i humayun

Hatt-i humayun (Ottoman Turkish: خط همايون, Turkish: hatt-ı hümayun or hatt-ı hümâyûn), also known as hatt-i sharif (hatt-ı şerîf), is the diplomatics term for a document or handwritten note of an official nature composed by an Ottoman Sultan.

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Ispendje

İspençe was a tax levied on non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire.

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Jizya

Jizya or jizyah (جزية; جزيه) is a per capita yearly tax historically levied on non-Muslim subjects, called the dhimma, permanently residing in Muslim lands governed by Islamic law.

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Kadi (Ottoman Empire)

A kadı was an official in the Ottoman Empire (قاضي). The term kadi refers to judges who presides over matters in accordance with Islamic law, but in the Ottoman Empire, the kadi also became a crucial part of the central authority’s administrative hierarchy.

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Mamluk

Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك mamlūk (singular), مماليك mamālīk (plural), meaning "property", also transliterated as mamlouk, mamluq, mamluke, mameluk, mameluke, mamaluke or marmeluke) is an Arabic designation for slaves.

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Merdiban

Merdiban was an accounting method used by the Ottoman empire, Abbasid empire, and Ilkhanate; especially for recording tax payments and liabilities.

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Muafiyet

Muafiyet was a tax exemption mechanism for Ottoman towns or villages; an individual decree of tax exemption was called a muafname.

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Noel Malcolm

Sir Noel Robert Malcolm, (born 26 December 1956) is an English political journalist, historian and academic.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Resm-i çift

The Resm-i Çift (Çift Akçesi or Çift resmi) was a tax in the Ottoman Empire.

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Romani people

The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.

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Rumelia Eyalet

The Eyalet of Rumeli or Rumelia (ایالت روم ایلی, Eyālet-i Rūm-ėli), also known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli, was a first-level province (beylerbeylik or eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire encompassing most of the Balkans ("Rumelia").

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Simony

Simony is the act of selling church offices and roles.

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Sublime Porte

The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte (باب عالی Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali, from باب, bāb "gate" and عالي, alī "high"), is a synecdochic metonym for the central government of the Ottoman Empire.

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Tanzimat

The Tanzimât (lit) was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

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Tax

A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.

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Temettu

Temettu was a tax introduced by the tanzimat reforms in the later Ottoman Empire.

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Timar

A timar was land granted by the Ottoman sultans between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a tax revenue annual value of less than 20 000 akçes.

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Vlach (Ottoman social class)

Vlach (Ottoman Turkish: Eflak, Eflakân; Serbo-Croatian: Vlah/Влах, Vlasi/Власи) was a social class within the ''millet'' system of the Ottoman Empire, composed largely of Orthodox Christian nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoral populations of genuine Vlachs, Serbianised Vlachs, and Serbs.

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Vlachs

Vlachs (or, or rarely), also Wallachians (and many other variants), is a historical term from the Middle Ages which designates an exonym (a name given by foreigners) used mostly for the Romanians who lived north and south of the Danube.

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Waqf

A waqf (وقف), also known as habous or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law, which typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitable purposes with no intention of reclaiming the assets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Ottoman_Empire

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