From the Pages of the Defter (ص 99)

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have shown that the composition of hane was socially dependent and, thus, varied between
regions. Maria N. Todorova, who examines Ottoman population statistics in her research on
the demography of Ottoman Bulgaria, has found that “as a general rule, the term hane
should not be translated, but its particular connotation interpreted in each single case.” °*
As one might expect, hanes in cosmopolitan locations where work was often procured
individually were smaller than in the country, where the dictates of the agricultural economy
demanded joint labor. In late-nineteenth century Istanbul, for example, more than half the
households contained no more than three to four individuals. “©? The same has been found
to be true for mid-nineteenth century Cairo.”
The average hane size in the city of Hebron, per the 1905 population register, was
11.5 individuals.’°° My initial investigation into the question of hane size in the villages’
*°? Maria N. Todorova, Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in
Ottoman Bulgaria (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006), 100.
*®3 For example, according to the census of 1885 for Istanbul, which counted the entire population, 31
percent of the hanes were comprised of people either living alone or in small groups with others who
were not family members. Another 30 percent of the households averaged just three members, while
only 27 percent of the households were extended or multiple-family households. Alen Duben,
“Understanding Muslim Households and Families in Late Ottoman Istanbul”, Journal of Family History 15
(1990): 73-74.
tA Phillippe Fargues, “Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo”, in Beshara Doumani, ed.
Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 2003), 38.
*®° This summation is based on my research in the registers, which will be published in a future study.
Johann Bussow makes use of 1905 population registers for the district of Jerusalem in his 2011 study on
politics and society in the province of Jerusalem in the Hamidian era. According to Bussow, the basis of
grouping individuals in the Jerusalem registry was by mesken, i.e., by residence. (BUssow, 21-23.)
Although the same forms Bussow reproduces in his work (Pagis’ images) were used in the Hebron
district, the unit of grouping individuals in Hebron was the hane, not the residence. The register columns
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