POPULATION STRUCTURE OF THE INAY ACCIDENT ACCORDING TO THE AWARID BOOK DATED 1678 AND THE POPULATION BOOKS DATED 1834-35/1840-41


Inay and its site have been an important settlement that has been home to many civilizations since ancient times. Nowadays, Inay is a village in Ulubey District of Uşak. After the entry of the Turks into Anatolia, the Seljuk State, then Germiyanoğlu principality, and until the fall of the Ottoman Empire was located within the territory. Especially during the period when the Seljuk and Ottoman Empire dominated the region, many cultural heritage such as caravanserai, madrasa and mosque were left on the site. The underlying reason for the formation of this kind of cultural heritage is that Inay is located on the trade route connecting the Aegean and Central Anatolia. Inay, which was ruled as district and township in various periods, has been affected by Administrative Reforms and has undergone changes. Since the first quarter of the XVIIth century, the tax collected by the state to cover extraordinary circumstances and war costs has become permanent as a result of many years of wars. Although the awarıd households in the books created in the censuses for this tax do not specify the real households, it has been the source providing important information about settlements in the XVIIth century. In XIXth century, a full-fledged census was conducted in the Ottoman Empire, covering all the settlements and taking X-rays of the people. The awarid and the population books have been the primary sources of important information about the social and economic conditions of the community living in a given area. In this study, demographic structure of the district was studied by examining related books. One of our goals in investigating this township is the significant changes in the Sayyid structure of the region.


Keywords


Inay, Awarid, Population, Western Anatolia, Sayyid

Author : Oğuz ŞENTÜRK
Number of pages: 1001-1028
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.37831
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Turkish Studies - Historical Analysis
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