Ayâns in the Ottoman Cyprus in the Second Half of the 18th Century

Nuri ÇEVİKEL

doi:https://doi.org/10.37879/belleten.2008.567

Article Details

Ayâns in the Ottoman Cyprus in the Second Half of the 18th Century

Authors:

Nuri ÇEVİKEL

Publisher:

Türk Tarih Kurumu

Main Topics:

History

Journal:

BELLETEN 2008 Vol.72 Issue 264, pp.567-590

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2008

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000885958

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2791-6472

pISSN:

0041-4255

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37879/belleten.2008.567

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Abstract:

 

A process of fluctuation was experienced at the expense of the Muslim - non-Muslim reayah living in the Province of Cyprus exclusively in 17501800 A.D. In this period, along with the natural calamities like earthquakes, plagues, droughts and the likes, appeared other factors to play a decisive role in the case. One of the most important of them was a progression of "decentralization". It first appeared in the late sixteenth century as a result of inner and outer political, social and economic conditions, developed in the following century and widely spread all over the Ottoman Empire by the second half of the eighteenth century. Consequently, the proccss led the Ottoman central governments to lose or share its authority in provinces with newly emerged local powers called "ayans". To study the repercussions of the process, main subject of this writing, will obviously help someone to understand satisfactorily the history of Cyprus under the Ottoman rule, and grasp the whole picture of the conversions like that "process of decentralization". By this study one can also see determining to what extent and how those changings were tested in provinces is inevitable for clarifying the essence of the transitions which influenced the whole empire.

 


A process of fluctuation was experienced at the expense of the Muslim - non-Muslim reayah living in the Province of Cyprus exclusively in 17501800 A.D. In this period, along with the natural calamities like earthquakes, plagues, droughts and the likes, appeared other factors to play a decisive role in the case. One of the most important of them was a progression of "decentralization". It first appeared in the late sixteenth century as a result of inner and outer political, social and economic conditions, developed in the following century and widely spread all over the Ottoman Empire by the second half of the eighteenth century. Consequently, the proccss led the Ottoman central governments to lose or share its authority in provinces with newly emerged local powers called "ayans". To study the repercussions of the process, main subject of this writing, will obviously help someone to understand satisfactorily the history of Cyprus under the Ottoman rule, and grasp the whole picture of the conversions like that "process of decentralization". By this study one can also see determining to what extent and how those changings were tested in provinces is inevitable for clarifying the essence of the transitions which influenced the whole empire.

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Article Details

Ayâns in the Ottoman Cyprus in the Second Half of the 18th Century

Authors: Nuri ÇEVİKEL

Publisher: Türk Tarih Kurumu

Main Topics: History

Journal: BELLETEN 2008 Vol.72 Issue 264, pp.567-590

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 7/2008

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000885958

Frequency: Tri-annual

eISSN: 2791-6472

pISSN: 0041-4255

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37879/belleten.2008.567

Ottoman

Cyprus

Ayâns

18th Century

Issues

Authors:

Nuri ÇEVİKEL

Publisher:

Türk Tarih Kurumu

Main Topics:

History

Journal:

BELLETEN 2008 Vol.72 Issue 264, pp.567-590

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2008

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000885958

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2791-6472

pISSN:

0041-4255

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37879/belleten.2008.567