Demographic features of Ottoman upper Thrace : a case study on Filibe, Tatar Pazarcık and İstanimaka (1472-1614)
Author
Boykov, Grigor
Advisor
İnalcık, Halil
Date
2004Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
The thesis examines the demographic processes of three Ottoman cities in the period
late fifteenth – early seventeenth centuries. Seen through the data provided by the
Ottoman tax and population censuses (tahrir defterleri) the research illustrates three
different types of urban development and demographic trends in the Ottoman Upper
Thrace. The first type, representative of which was the city of Filibe, points preOttoman
settlements, which as a consequence of the policy of the central Ottoman
administration, have been recreated and repopulated with Turkish colonists from
Asia Minor. The central authority played a crucial role in the demographic processes
there. The second type, Tatar Pazarcık, is an example of newly founded Ottoman
city in the development of which the state also took active part. The third type,
İstamimaka, represents settlement from the medieval Balkan period, which stayed
out of the strategic interest of the Ottoman government, having minor state
interference in the natural demographic processes.
Keywords
demographyAsenovgrad
İstanimaka
Pazardjik
Tatar Pazarcık
Tatar Bazarı
Plovdiv
Filibe
tahrir defterleri
deportation
colonization