People living in the Ottoman provinces and belonging to the ruling and ruled class occasionally encountered some problems in the regions where they lived. People belonging to the ruled class generally applied to the county courts where they lived to solve the problems they encountered. Those who did not consent to the decision made in the county courts would apply to the Court, which is the upper level and has the same degree of appeal. The situation is slightly different for those belonging to the ruled class. In order to solve the problem experienced by the timar owners carrying out the public service, the Ottoman State resorted to trial at a higher court. While complaints to the Court were initially recorded in the Muhimme book, they were begun to be recorded in the Complaint book from 1649 on, and in the State Judicial Books from 1742 on. In this study, the social and legal situation of the people living in Akçaabat district was dealth with, based on the complaint records that occurred in Akçaabat between 1742-1800. Accordingly, people from the administrative class who carried out public services in and around the Akçaabat district faced more problems than the citizens. Among these problems, there are interventions against timar and tax. While the interventions made against the timar are generally seen as the intervention of the timar owners to each other, it is seen as the intervention of the people in the tax issue. In the interventions to tax and timar, some groups belonging to the ruled class united and engaged in banditry activities. While this situation caused some problems in ensuring the security of the region, it also became an important obstacle in collecting the income of timar owners.
Keywords: Complaint, State Judgment Notebooks, Akcaabat, Trabzon, Ottoman.
DOI Number: 10.9737/hist.2020.949
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