Abstract:

The researchers who study the different cities and sanjacks in the Anatolia in the frame of the tahrir registers, agreed about that a population growth was happened in the 16th century Anatolia. Generally many of the researchers expressed that the population in the regions that they study,redoubled in the century and also they tell about an extreme population growth. In spite of population growth in the studies that were done for the regions in Turkey, the migration subject, which is important for settlement, demografics and economy, isn’t examined or only told by one or two paragraphs without telling any statistics. So in this study espicially in the frame of the immigrants who came to the Sivas and its environments, the effect of the migrations in the 15th -16th centuries on the Ottoman settlement structure will be evaluated.

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