Özet:

Throughout history, mines have occupied an important place for the Ottoman State as well as for every state. For the Ottoman Empire, the importance and value of coal mines among these mines increased with the industrial revolution. As a matter of fact, coal mines were used as fuel for the most important inventions of the era, such as steamships and trains. However, the operation of coal mines depends on labor and capital power. In this respect, the Ottoman State sometimes connected the places around the mine to the region where the mine was extracted to form financial units in order to operate the mines more actively, and sometimes transformed the region where the mine was located into an administratively independent unit. In this way, both labor power was taken care of and bureaucratic convenience was tried to be provided in mineral extraction. In this study, the reason why Ereğli Coal Mine was turned into a sanjak will be discussed, especially within the framework of archival sources, due to the income it provides to the state and its contributions to industry and other branches. Thus, it will be revealed that financial units have an important place in the determination of the Ottoman administrative structure.

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