From the Pages of the Defter (ص 103)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 103)

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i.e. field-crop land, vineyards, fruit trees, olive trees, and garden plots. These assessments
fell within identifiable ranges that appear to have been dependent on quality of land and
other factors. Village communal agricultural properties, registered as “reserved for the
people” (ahali-ye mahsus) were usually the last items to be recorded in any village list. Tax-
exempt properties were also recorded, and occasionally one finds references to agricultural
plots being piously endowed properties (mevkufe)
Within this broad framework, one can observe standards as well as variations in
recording patterns, categories, and values, sometimes general across the register and at
other times seemingly village-dependent. The usage of some property categories, for
example, appears to have been non-standardized and flexible to a degree. This is particularly
the case with gardens and field-crop lands (hakyure and tarla, for which one can find
considerable overlap in size and, at times, value assessment. Category choices do not,
however, appear to have been randomly or thoughtlessly assigned in the vast majority of
cases. Generally speaking, individual register entries appear to have been recorded after
consideration of the specific property or of that type of property within a limited
geographical area. This is particularly true with field-crop lands, which were almost always
the largest land parcels. Of course, it is not unlikely that category definitions varied to a
degree from village to village or between clusters of villages. The examination below of the
two categories of residences — odas and hanes — will illustrate the range of meanings register
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Susynne McElrone

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