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The '''resm-i donum''' was a land tax in the [[Ottoman empire]]; it was a divani tax paid each year to the landowner or [[timar]] holder, typically on the 1st of March<ref>{{cite book|title=ACCOUNTING METHOD USED BY OTTOMANS FOR 500 YEARS: STAIRS (MERDIBAN) METHOD|pages=192|url=http://www.sgb.gov.tr/Publications/Accounting%20Method%20Used%20By%20Ottomans%20For%20500%20Years%20-%20Stairs%20(Merdiban)%20Method.pdf}}</ref> |
The '''resm-i donum''' was a land tax in the [[Ottoman empire]]; it was a [[Divan|divani]] tax paid each year to the landowner or [[timar]] holder, typically on the 1st of March<ref>{{cite book|title=ACCOUNTING METHOD USED BY OTTOMANS FOR 500 YEARS: STAIRS (MERDIBAN) METHOD|pages=192|url=http://www.sgb.gov.tr/Publications/Accounting%20Method%20Used%20By%20Ottomans%20For%20500%20Years%20-%20Stairs%20(Merdiban)%20Method.pdf}}</ref> |
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The resm-i donum was based on the [[dönüm]], a measure of [[Agriculture|farm]] size;<ref>{{cite journal|title=PROTECTIVE INTERVENTION OF THE STATE IN GRAIN PRODUCTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE|journal=SOSYAL BİLİMLER DERGİSİ|pages=49|url=yordam.manas.kg/ekitap/pdf/Manasdergi/sbd/sbd8/sbd-8-04.pdf|accessdate=20 April 2011}}</ref> this is parallel to the [[resm-i çift]], a tax based on the [[çift]] (the area that could be ploughed by one team of oxen). Generally, both taxes had to be paid, and the terms may at times have been interchangeable - [[Taxation in the Ottoman empire|taxation in the Ottoman empire]] was a complex patchwork of overlapping taxes which evolved over time. |
The resm-i donum was based on the [[dönüm]], a measure of [[Agriculture|farm]] size;<ref>{{cite journal|title=PROTECTIVE INTERVENTION OF THE STATE IN GRAIN PRODUCTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE|journal=SOSYAL BİLİMLER DERGİSİ|pages=49|url=yordam.manas.kg/ekitap/pdf/Manasdergi/sbd/sbd8/sbd-8-04.pdf|accessdate=20 April 2011}}</ref> this is parallel to the [[resm-i çift]], a tax based on the [[çift]] (the area that could be ploughed by one team of oxen). Generally, both taxes had to be paid, and the terms may at times have been interchangeable - [[Taxation in the Ottoman empire|taxation in the Ottoman empire]] was a complex patchwork of overlapping taxes which evolved over time. |
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The resm-i donum was a land tax in the Ottoman empire; it was a divani tax paid each year to the landowner or timar holder, typically on the 1st of March[1]
The resm-i donum was based on the dönüm, a measure of farm size;[2] this is parallel to the resm-i çift, a tax based on the çift (the area that could be ploughed by one team of oxen). Generally, both taxes had to be paid, and the terms may at times have been interchangeable - taxation in the Ottoman empire was a complex patchwork of overlapping taxes which evolved over time.
The amount of resm-i donum was proportional to the size of the farm.[3] In some cases, the resm-i donum was specific to a kind of lease agreement that an otherwise landless peasant would make with a sipahi (feudal lord)[4] and it may actually have resembled a rent more than a tax.
Since the rate of resm-i donum was recorded in tax codes such as kanunname, and the area of a dönüm is known, tax documents which detail the amount of resm-i donum paid by each community allow historians to understand the varying areas of land under cultivation at different times and in different provinces.[5] One preserved kanunname, for the Morea in 1716, set resm-i donum at 60 akçes per çift, although the area of a çift would vary between provinces, and it was stated that the area of a çift was smaller for high-quality farmland than for low-quality farmland.
One variation was resm-i donum-i haşhâş, a tax applied to opium growers in place of Öşür,[6] at a rate of 1 krş per donum - although the detailed accounts of opium production recorded in defters suggest that in this case resm-i donum may actually have been levied by weight of produce, rather than by area.[7]
In some Albanian-speaking areas, resm-i donum may have been a tax specific to vineyards.
References
- ^ ACCOUNTING METHOD USED BY OTTOMANS FOR 500 YEARS: STAIRS (MERDIBAN) METHOD (PDF). p. 192.
- ^ [yordam.manas.kg/ekitap/pdf/Manasdergi/sbd/sbd8/sbd-8-04.pdf "PROTECTIVE INTERVENTION OF THE STATE IN GRAIN PRODUCTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE"] (PDF). SOSYAL BİLİMLER DERGİSİ: 49. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
{{cite journal}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Agha, shaikh and state: on the social and political organization of Kurdistan. Rijksuniversiteit. 1978. p. 186.
- ^ Türk dünyası kültür atlası: The Seljuk period. Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfı. p. 11. ISBN 9789757522119.
- ^ Lowry, Heath (2002). Fifteenth century Ottoman realities: Christian peasant life on the Aegean Island of Limnos. Eren. ISBN 9789757622895.
- ^ International journal of Turkish studies, Volumes 3-4. University of Wisconsin. 1985. pp. 68, 73.
- ^ Poroy (1981). "EXPANSION OF OPIUM PRODUCTION IN TURKEY AND THE STATE MONOPOLY OF 1828-1839". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 13 (2): 191–211.
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