DEFTER
Defter
A defter was a type of tax register in the Ottoman Empire. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads, ethnicity/religion, and land use. The defter-i hakâni was a land registry, also used for tax purposes.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Defter
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