Abstract:

In the West, with the new age, social scientists have researched and studied the nature of the population, and for this in almost every country the population calculations have begun to be done scientifically. The results of the calculation were evaluated and the problems were solved. Immediately after the establishment of the Ottoman State, countings and scripts were made to determine the income of the people on the firstly conquered lands and the land they possess. Looking at the purposes and the processes of storage of the deprivation records, which are the most important source of information about the population, it is impossible to see the same population services like today here. In the Ottoman state, in 1831 (Hicri 1251) it is considered the first population count made in modern sense in the provinces of Rumeli and Anadolu. This number of people could be completed in three to five years. The population of the Ardanuç sanctuary, which is linked to the state of Madur, was counted in Hicri in 1251. 1 Muharrem 1251 Hicri history is equal to the date of 29 April 1835 as Miladi. In this number, the Ardanuç center and the Muslim and Non-Muslim populations of the villages were counted. In the Revised 1835 Ardanuç Population Register, the male population of 48 settlements, including the Ardanuç Kalesi center connected to the Ardanuç sanctuary, is listed. In these villages, according to the principle of military collection and taxation, which are the general purposes of counting, Muslims, Armenians and Cypriots are written in separate records. In this study, from the data included in the population count, the records were evaluated based on some data such as the occupation of the population working or working in the house, taxation status and age.

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