Abstract :
During the beginning of the 19th century as the European sugar factories started to develop, the Ottoman Empire started attempts to establish similar factories. Dimitri Efendi from Arnavutkoy, took action to establish a sugar factory near Istanbul in 1840. Dimitri Efendi was given exclusive rights to grow sugar canes and produce sugar for ten years. However, his attempts to establish a sugar factory were not successful. In 1847 Yusuf Bey from Afyon, Davutoglu Karabet in 1866, Michel Pasa in 1879, Musir Rauf Bey in 1891 attempted to establish sugar factories but were not successful either. This study, analyses the attempts to establish a sugar factory, the entrepreneurs, the possible places for factories and why the attempts were unsuccessful. The study will be using Ottoman Archive documents as well as other available resources.
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Ottoman Empire , Sugar Production , Exclusive rights , Industrial production
