Abstract:

The family which constitued from mother, father and children, is the basis unit that established to society. There are rich informations about the family in the shariya registers which one of the most important resources for the researches of Ottoman social history, as well as political, economic and military cases. İn consequence a study that concerning the Turkish family in the Ottoman era will be scarce to be done that without reference to the shariya registers. Therefore, about the creation period of family in the Sandjak of Hamid in the XIX. century were made various observations and evaluations in our study, with move from the records in the Isparta shariya registers in the axix of cases like engagement, wedding and dowry

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