TABRIZ IN 1725 ACCORDING TO THE OTTOMAN TAX REGISTERS

Abstract

The events of the first quarter of the eighteenth century, which led to the collapse of the Safavid
government, were chained by each other. The government's misguided policies have caused
uprisings in those years. For example, Caucasus, Kurdistan, Khorasan’s Sunnis, Bahraini Arabs,
Lorestan’s Kurds and Qizilbash revolts, also Mahmoud’s movement to Capital Isfahan and
capturingitin 1722.The Safavid'sneighbors, Russia and the Ottomans, also pursued these events to
using this situation.The Safavid’s situation was reached by the Ottoman Provinces and Durri
Ahmad Afandi was sent to Esfahan as an emissary in 1720 to observe the condition. The Durri
Ahmad Afandi’s report was surrendered to his government in 1721 and Ottoman invaded Safavid
from three fronts in 1723.The Caucasus’s head of governor Arefi Ahmed Pasha Ravan, Baghdad
Governor Ayubi Hassan Pasha, Kermanshah and Hamedan, and the Kopruli-zadehAbdullah Pasha,
after the capture of Salmas, Khoy, Chours, Tzuj and Marand, moved to Tabriz in 1724 but could not
catch the city.The next year, Tabriz was dominated by Ottoman on 2 August 1724.For the
conquered lands to be among the assets of the Ottoman Empire, they are written at that areas.The result of the writing activities in this area is the Dougal Defter 904 and 908. In this research,
according to the Defter 904, information such as divisions and districts of the Tabriz area, estimated
population, number of taxpayers, names of agricultural products and industries, will be given to the
estimated economic value of the area.