THE BREAD IN GREEK LANDS DURING THE OTTOMAN RULE

Year 1992, Volume: 16 Issue: 27, 199 - 226, 01.05.1992

Evangelia Balta

https://doi.org/10.1501/Tarar_0000000068

Abstract

The grain t~ade gives a reveali~g picture of economic life in general in the Ottornan.
empire. Although the state.did -,
not have a monopoly
of the grain market it nonetheless set limitsand guidelinesthat ensured
the provision of food for' its populationand prote'cted the interests of
the producers. Herein lied the smodth functioningof the attornan system. The necessary regulations and adjustmentsby the state concerning commercial praetice, asexpressed in legislation and in loeal regulations, eonstituted one of the most characteristie features of the Otto- '
man system, a feature that was closely linked with state provisions for
the supply of thearmy and for the supply of the major centres of consumption in the empire. 

Keywords

THE BREAD, GREEK LANDS, OTTOMAN RULE