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This article aims to illustrate the organization and management of mining enterprises, which are one of the most important sources of income of the Ottoman finance, with a micro-level example. In the studies on the history of the Ottoman economy, the research on mines in the classical period is quite small. Therefore, our research is very important in terms of contributing to the Ottoman financial and administrative history. It appears that the Ottoman state, which became an important power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the Fatih period, was able to take over the mining stores in these regions almost entirely and direct its own policy of self-qualification both in the financial and military terms and keep the operation of the mining stores under control, and from the beginning of the classical period to stop production, continuously publishing the mining laws, trying to consolidate the legal status of the mines. After the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman state paid great attention to the mining stores, and began to operate in the mines that were thrown by making necessary arrangements. As known, the Balkans were a rich region in terms of silver, iron and bakery mining beds. In Bosnia, where the mine was the subject of our work, along with the gold and silver mines, there were also very efficient iron mines. One of these is the Kamengrad Iron Mine, which was opened to operation by the end of the 16th century. Kamengrad iron mine, which provides one of the important raw materials that the Ottoman military industry needs, is operated under state assistance and supervision because it is used for military purposes. The state, which is extremely sensitive in the protection of the mining and also the mining land, has taken all the necessary measures to continue production in this mining land, and thus has usually tried to provide the army's special and surrounding castles with the ball ball bomb.

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