Abstract
Minutes inscribed by judges of Ottoman Empire in courts called Court Records (Ser'iye Sicilleri). These books include orders and firmans send by Capital and local ordinance as well as reports of important events. These records come first among the sources for those researchers whose interest is Ottoman rural life. In Court Records, among the most frequent records are 'Tereke' registries. Tereke is a kind of registry that catalogues all personal belongings and real estates of a deceased one. This aspect of these registries make them very significant resources which shed light on social life in villages which were the smallest administrative units of Ottoman country. However, Terekes belonging villagers are not found as commonly as the others. Correspondingly, the lack of studies on Ottoman village life in the relevant literature reveals this fact. In this study, 19th century socio-economic and socio-cultural structure of Edremit villagers are looked into by analysing five villagers' Terekes found in Edremit Court Records with the number of 1244 and dated in 1888 and 1889.
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