Abstract:

As an important innovation in the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire began to make censuses to determine the men who could be recruited in most of Anatolia and Rumelia. After the censuses started for the first time in 1830-1831, one of the new practices of the 19th century central administration is to conduct population surveys every 6 months to assess the demographic mobility of the population. In this context, population registers, which are the output of censuses and surveys, are also very essential for local history studies. Because the aforementioned archive material has serious importance in understanding the socio-economic aspects of the Ottoman province with the data it provides.In this period, İzmir, which was a very cosmopolitan city within the Sığla sanjak, has 31 population registers belonging to the years 1830-1850. In addition to these, other documents are containing the population figures of İzmir, although they are distributed to different sections. From this point of view, in the study, the documents about the population of Izmir, one of the largest and most important cities of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, were emphasized and it was aimed to introduce them.

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