Abstract:

In the years of the Ottoman State's establishment, the army troops were made up of militant forces and volunteers fighting for Gaza. But the long duration of the castle circumcises and the disadvantage of the soldiers in possession for continuous conquests has led to the establishment of governmental, paid and permanent army unions. For this purpose, the New Jersey House was established in the period of Murad.  In the following period of the rulers of New Jersey, new military classes were also included that performed different tasks. These military classes have also served in important Hudut castles outside of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman State. One of these castles was the Van Castle, which joined the Ottoman State during the Legislative Sultan Süleyman Period. In the tensions that occurred between the Ottoman State and the Safevi State and in the periods of warfare, many of the military classes from Istanbul were present in the Van Castle. In this article, the military classes located in the Van Castle and the tasks that these military classes perform with the presence, the foods, the louvre and the annual louvre are revealed. In order to reveal the importance of the Van Castle, comparison was made with other important castles of the time such as Erzurum, Kars, Baghdad, Trabzon and Tiflis.