مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - AN EVALUATION ON SETTLEMENT POLITICS OF OTTOMAN STATE AND LOCATIONS

Abstract :

Ottoman State, which was founded as a principality in Western Anatolia, entered in the process of becoming a state with other Turkish tribes’ support. Since it was difficult to rule a state with the tribal conventions, they began to apply written rules of law changing some conventions of Kayı Dynasty. Thus, unsettled people began to adopt a a sedentary life. However, it resulted in tenseness between ruler and subject, because the concept of adopting ‘a sedentary life’ was distant for the Turkmens who were strictly attached to the conventions. Yet the settlement of some tribes for the state was a must for the economic stability and urbanization as well as natural consequences of the conquests. Therefore, Ottoman ruler, ‘First Among the Equals’, while settling its people, had to overlook free motion of unsettled people who supplied food and livestock needs. This dilemma continued from the foundation of Ottoman State until its subversion. In this study; at the same time when touching to settlement policies which applied by the Ottoman State, some factors which had effected to being long-lived of the state are tried to explain refer to information and documents too.