1 ve 11 Numaralı Sivas Ahkâm Defterlerindeki Padişah Hasları İle İlgili Şikâyet Hükümlerinin Mukayesesi

Abstract

The revenues granted as a living in the Ottoman timar system were divided into three, namely, has, zeamet and timar. There were many varieties of has revenues grants, including royal revenues grants, revenue grants given to dynasty women, veziers and commandants, and other senior officials. Has revenue grants were fed from many tax sources in the provinces of Rumelia and Anatolia. Sources were transferred to various has revenue grants from the province of Sivas in Anatolia and among them the royal revenue grants were in the first place. In this study, the complaint provisions regarding the royal revenue grants registered in Sivas Ahkâm Registers No. 1 and 11 were examined. The number 1 register contains 1742-1744 and the number 11 register contains the provisions regarding the complaints reflected in the Divan-ı Hümayun from the province of Sivas between 1765-1767. From the examination of the provisions related to provincial senior officials, zeamet ve timar revenue grants in these registers, deterioration orders were determined in the timar system. It is worth examining whether a similar deterioration was observed in the royal revenue grants in Sivas province.In the Sivas Ahkâm Registers no. 1 and 11, a total of 79 complaint decisions related to royal rervenue grants were determined. These provisions were first transcribed, then summarized and then the cases were categorized and interpreted. Basically, an answer was sought for the questions of “for what reason did the problems in the royal revenue grants occur and what solutions were produced?” and “whether there was a dramatic increase in the number of cases related to the royal revenues grants”. In the light of the obtained results, answers to the questions we have mentioned above were sought and the answers reached were discussed. Key Words: Sivas, Judge, Decision, Notebook, Padishah.