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Copyright Professor Dr. Hale Sivgin 2015

Abstract

While hunting in traditional societies, was most commonly practised as a profession, for food, sports or entertainment, it was fully a part of Ottoman State organization as a military exercise or war game. From the first Ottoman rulers, there has been hunting institution in the palace. An organized hunting institution, regular hunting practices and the number of hunted animals had been perceived as the symbols of power of the ruler. Hunting organization was instrumental in identifying the situations of the country and people, inspecting government officials and listening to people's problems. In this respect, the meaning of hunting ceremony gains great importance. Hunting bird-growing organization in Ottoman Empire palace had been institutionalized since early years. Its provincial administration was created for particular sanjaks. The structure of provincial hunting organization was organized in the form of tasra dogancilari (provincial falconers or hawkers), sayyad (hunters), yavrucu (fledgeling careres), yuvaci (nest carers), kayaci (carer of nest rocks), görenceci (bird observers), tuzakçi (bird catchers). There are records in Ottoman archives about this units concerning their organization, numbers, how they were spread and how the duties were passed from father to son. In this study, in the 16th century provincial Ottoman hunting organization and services in Silistra has been throughly examined, using archive documents.

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Title
XVI. Yüzyilda Osmanli Devleti'nde Av Teskilati'nin Silistre Sancagindaki Yapilanmasi
Author
Alkan, Mustafa; Gökbuga, Ferdi
Pages
23-39
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Professor Dr. Hale Sivgin
ISSN
13079778
e-ISSN
13095137
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Turkish
ProQuest document ID
1752118029
Copyright
Copyright Professor Dr. Hale Sivgin 2015