Standards of Wealth and Poverly of the Ottoman Subjectsas Reflected in the Legislative Acts and the Tax Registrations (XVTH–XVII th c.)

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This study aims to analyze the idea of wealth and poverty of the Ottoman subjects and slaves, which the State created by their legislative acts; to reveal the basic principles applied by the authorities to differentiate the social and the property groups in the field of taxation and the penal process; to outline the State standards and their respective numeric parameters, according to which the taxpayers and defendants were qualified in various property groups. The study is based on Ottoman legislative texts – kanunnames and fetvas, on defters and treatises.

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Ottoman subjects, standards of wealth and poverty, laws, tax registrations.

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