Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Osmanli Medeniyeti Arastirmalari Dergisi, cilt.2023, sa.18, ss.21-37, 2023 (Scopus)
Vineyards are one of the economic modes of relations established by urban residents with the countryside in the early modern period. Being small in size, rich in number, and cheap in price, the circulation of vineyards owned by many town residents in Ruse, an Ottoman frontier town, is very high in the rural real estate market. There are numerous important data in vineyard transfer contracts which are one of the basic indicators of this circulation and are recorded in court registers, such as names and titles of transferor and transferee, residences of transferor generally and of transferee occasionally, and various features of transferred vineyards. In this regard, it is highly possible to trace changes in the profile of vineyard owners through vineyard transfer records which are registered as either sale or grant in the court records of Ruse. Despite their abundance, vineyard transfer records do not find as much favor as house sale contracts of urban residents in literature. This study aims to analyze long-term change and failure in the profiles of vineyard owners in the vineyard market through the information presented by sale and grant contracts basically and enriched by data which is acquired from probate records and detailed poll-tax enrolments. In this way, it is hoped to arouse interest in those kinds of rural real estate sale contracts and to promote to make studies as such.