Abstract:

In this article, it is aimed to analyze the position of the Yoruk communities living in the Sanjak of Hudâvendigâr in the 18th century. In the study made, it was determined that a great majority of the Yoruk population living in the Sanjak was the reayas of waqfs and included in the malikâne-mukataa system. This structuring and their nomadic identities distinguishing them from settled reayas have also determined the administrative, juridical and hence financial system they lived in. In the article, both the theoretical structure of this system and how it worked for Yoruk communities were analyzed. At first, it is required to determine the Yoruk communities and their living areas and define the people having administrative authority on them. After these subtitles, the relations basically formed around “the statue of serbestiyyet” between Yoruks and the administrative authorities are investigated. The primary sources of the study are the 18th century Bursa court registers. Especially, the registers consisted of records related to the reayas of Selâtin and Haremeny-i Şerifeyn Waqfs are the sources the most data about the subject were found in.

Keywords: