From the Pages of the Defter (ص 21)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 21)

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This study brings to light one such register, the 1876 (1292 maliyye) Esas-! Emlak
property-tax register for the villages and farmlands areas of the Hebron district. This 337-
page defter is a statistical compendium of taxable and non-taxable properties and
agricultural lands of the district’s fifty villages, these properties’ size and assessed monetary
values, and the property tax imposed on each taxable property. As an esas (foundational)
register, the 1876 defter appears to have been the first such record to have been compiled
for the district. It allows, for the first time, systematic examination of the implementation of
Tanzimat property- and land-tenure reforms within Palestine at a district-wide level.
The importance of this study cannot be understood without first situating it within
the historiographical terrain on which it treads. There is no disagreement among historians
that the Land Code provided for the creation of a new means of proving land-tenure, the
tapu senedi, a deed of title. It also established new regulations and procedures for claiming,
registering, safeguarding, transferring to others and forfeiting these rights. Anew
governmental department, the Tahrir-1 Emlak Nezareti, was established to handle these
transactions (and to collect the fees they generated). It is now generally accepted among
Ottomanists that a primary factor motivating the Tanzimat-era effort to register properties
to named owners was the desire to broaden the tax base and to individualize (and
standardize) tax rates and, in doing so, to augment the Ottoman coffers.”
° See, for example, Tosun Aricanli’s discussion of the Land Code and the emergence of landed powers,
titled ‘Property, Land and Labor in Nineteenth-Century Anatolia”, in Caglar Keyder and Faruk Tabak, eds.

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From the Pages of the Defter

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Susynne McElrone

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