H.1179-1184 Tarihli Şer’iye Sicillerine Göre Amasya Sancağı’nda İdari Taksimat ve Görevliler

Abstract

Amasya, which had a special place in the sanjak administration, was the "Prince Sanjak", where the princes gained administrative experience and personally ruled. Because of this advantage, he had reached the highest level in science, art and culture. The administration of Amasya Sanjak by princes relatively lessened the superiority of the province to which it was affiliated. Because there was a prince in one of the sanjak of the beylerbeyi and there was a feeling of superiority.
 Amasya Sanjak is divided into eleven administrative districts and four sub-districts within the administrative division in the registry books numbered 52 and 53. Administrative units and administrators are given in detail due to the distribution of religious and customary taxes to be collected from Amasya. Amasya is divided into the districts of Lâdik, Varay, Zünnunabâd, Gelgiras, Gümüşhacıköy, Merzifon, Merzifonabâd, Zeytûn, Kedağra and Havza together with the center of Amasya in the Shari'ah Registers. The sub-districts following the administrative unit of the district and all the villages connected to them are given with their names. Forty-nine villages affiliated to Ezinepazarı District, twenty-eight villages affiliated to Hakala District, thirty-one villages affiliated to Geldiklân District and thirty villages affiliated to Akdağ District were identified. It has been observed that officials such as mutasarrıf, mutasellim, naib, city chamberlain, kethüdayeri, chief of çeri and muhzırbaşı, who were appointed to Amasya, where the change in the administrative structure was most evident, sometimes treated the people badly. In our study, we tried to reveal the administrative division and the administrators in this division with their names according to the information given by the documents in the registries.