Abstract:

Tobacco brought from the new world during geographical discoveries has become one of the world’s most important agricultural products. By the 17th century, tobacco became an agricultural product in the Ottoman geography. Despite the ban on consumption on intervals, the rapidly expanding market in the empire geography and beyond has been influential in the emergence of October areas in the new Ottoman geography. When it comes to the 18th century, tobacco farming, which was also widespread in the Eastern Black Sea region, after a century of political and economic weakness of the state, has become a strategic product in terms of the actions of the ruling elements to remove the resources of the state. 19th. From the last quarter of the century, the Western states, which have controlled tobacco farming within the Ottoman borders and the Regi administration, which they have established, and the related financial environments, have been bound to govern tobacco producers. The Anatolian farmer, who was disappointed by the pressures applied, was often forced to sell his crops to the traffickers. Despite all the efforts of the Reji Idara, which fights the trafficking through the collars, the increasing trafficking activities continued to decline relatively after the period of the closure of the Regi. Tobacco, the traffickers and the people who are fighting with them, who leave important traces in social and cultural life, are also found their place in the stories of the Trabzon area's mania and turquoise. The same stories that have been translated over a few generations can be multiplied as new ones can be added over time. In this story, the stories on tobacco trafficking that can be detected by the search of the area around Trabzon and the fighting between the traffickers and collars will be assessed by their social, economic and cultural dimensions.

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