Özet:

This study, identifying and assessing with the socio-economic status of the craftsmen(esnaf) unions in Istanbul, intends to examine Istanbul Ahkam Registers in the last period of the 18th century. 198 provisions, which regards to the craftsmen unions, were determined in İstanbul Ahkam Registers of the 18th century. The analysis of these registers, the maximum of provisions were found with 8-9th part of them. The most economic problems of the craftsmen in İstanbul are trading, allocation, chamberlain(kethuda), distributiondivision channels, fixed prices(narh) and workshops. Moreover, the most applications were made in İstanbul(surici) old town region. Both the applicants and the complainants are intensity composed by the raya which are dwelling in centrum. In the distribution of the religious, the applicants occur 54% of Muslim, and 28% of Non-Muslim(95.4% of this is composed by Zimmer/Zimmi) and the complainants occur 42,7% of Muslims, and 25,3% of Non-Muslims(91% of this is also composed by Zimmer). It was found that 60.1% of applications were made in the period of 1775-1779.

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