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ABSTRACT
A COMMENTARY on the TEREKE RECORDS of BALIKESİR (1670-1700)
ER, İlker
Master Thesis, Department of History
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Kenan Ziya TAŞ
2008, 104 Pages.
Tereke records are one of the most important source for the Ottoman
social history research. The terekes may be described as a list of every kinds
of goods, commodity, debts and credits which were transferred to ones’
heirs. In this study, it’s aimed at emphasising the potantials of terekes as a
source of social history taking the case of Balıkesir in the second half of the
17th century into a special consideration.. On the contrary the terekes of
other big cities, the Balıkesir terekes are not classified as different defters.
They rather may be found among the kadi sicils as scattered. Therefore the
records between 1670 and 1700 are collected through a strict research.
This work is conducted on the base of the documents. The
assessment and comments are deepened as the method followed here
allows us and it’s been more dependent on the records.
The text consists of two main chapters. In the first chapter, it’s been
concentrated on those who left terekes. In this, the titles&status of the people
and their property situations are considered. Also their family relations are
discussed. In the second chapter, the contents of the terekes are examined.
In this context, estates, cash money, credits, clothing materials, household
goods, crops, domestic animals and other staff are investigated in the light of
the terekes. By doing so, the value of the terekes as a historical source is
explained and the main lines of the daily life in Balıkesir at the end of the 17th
century may be studied.