Abstract:

Selendi was in the status of a district subject to İçil Sanjak in administrative division between 1530 and 1584. The people of district are composed of settled peasants and nomadic communions that migrate between certain geographies depending on the mode of production. These communions are Oğuzhanlı, İkizce, Piyadegân-ı Veli Mukaddem, Piyadegân-ı Veled-i Bahşiş, Piyadegân-ı Hacı Mehmed, Saçıkara, Ucarı, Bey, Beriyye, Ketakara, Hacı Habibli, Burhanlar, Veled-i Köpek, İncügüz, Dayıcık (Taycık), Cakmak and Canavarcık only those belonging to the period that is the subject of the research from the tahrir registers. The population of the aforementioned communions has been calculated only on the basis of the number of soldiers and is not intended to find the actual numbers of the relevant sections. The change in the number of soldiers between the years when the censuses took place, the comparison of the communities with each other in terms of population, the numerical data of each community were statistically evaluated.

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