Anadolu ve Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Levent KAYAPINAR, Elif BAKSI, Bahar ÖZVARDARLI, Mustafa ÇELEBİ

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.32953/abad.635486

Anahtar Kelimeler:Ottoman,Roumelia,Tekirdağ,Müsellem Document

Özet: During the foundation of the Ottoman state at the time of Orhan Gazi, the first infantry organization yaya and müsellem was established in order to participate in war time expeditions, to deal with agriculture in peace period. Yaya consisting of Muslim Turks were exempted from extraordinary taxes in exchange for their duties. In order to express these exemptions of yaya, the word müsellem was used. After the interregnum/fetret period the word müsellem has been used for horsmen than the pedestrians in this organization. The role of müsellem in the early conqest regions by Ottomans was quite important. The müsellem register of Tekirdağ District, which is the subject of the present study, were obtained from the müsellem records of Çirmen liva from 1532. The pages between 224 to 299 chapters, covering the first part of the register, were published in pages between 153 to 233 in the third issues of the Journal of Anatolian and Balkan Studies. Due to the  relevant part of register is sizable,in this study we prefer to transcrip into only the pages between from 300 to 365 as the second part of the study. The aim of this study to enlighten the history of the Tekirdağ city and to reveal the organization of müsellem troops in Tekirdağ thanks to the müsellem registers, one the most important sources of the period. 

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