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                                                                <journal-id>ttk belleten</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>BELLETEN</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">0041-4255</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2791-6472</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Türk Tarih Kurumu</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.37879/belleten.2015.901</article-id>
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                                    <trans-title>Devşirme Sistemi ve 1603-4 Yıllarında Bursa’da Devşirilen Çocuklar</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>The Devshirme System and the Levied Children of Bursa in 1603-4</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Yılmaz</surname>
                                    <given-names>Gülay</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Akdeniz University, History Department, Faculty of Letters</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20151201">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2015</year>
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                                        <volume>79</volume>
                                        <issue>286</issue>
                                        <fpage>901</fpage>
                                        <lpage>930</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20151001">
                        <day>10</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2015</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1937, BELLETEN</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>1937</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>BELLETEN</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="tr">
                            <p>Bu makale devşirme sistemini iki sorunsal ekseninde incelemektedir: devşirme sistemi yerel düzeyde nasıl işlemiştir ve devşirilme esnasından ne tip yerel politikaları tetiklemiştir; ve devşirilen çocukların bu sürec içerisindeki deneyimleri nelerdir. 1603-4 yılı Bursa’sı alan çalışması olarak alınmış ve sistem bunun üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir. Makale 1603-4 yılları arasında devşirilmiş çocukların listesini veren eşsiz bir defter olan sürü defterinin araştırma sonuçlarından bir kesittir. Bunun yanısıra mühimme defterleri ve Bursa kadı mahkemesinin bazı sicil kayıtları kullanılmıştır. Makale Bursa’daki toprak sahipleri, voyvoda, kadı ve subaşılar gibi yerel güç odaklarının devşirme memurlarının kararlarında etkide bulunabilmek için nasıl lobi grupları oluşturduklarını göstermektedir. Önemli sorunsallardan bir tanesi de erken modern dönem Osmanlı dünyasına Hıristiyan bir çocuk olmanın ne anlama geldiğidir. Bu çocuklar kimlerdir, nasıl seçilmişlerdir, seçilme veya seçilmemeye nasıl tepki vermişlerdir gibi sorular bu makalede değerlendirilmiştir. Makale aynı zamanda çocukların toplanmış oldukları bölge ve köylerin yerleri, çocukların yaşları, görünüşleri ve sağlık durumları hakkında da bilgi sunmaktadır ki bu minvalde yapılmış tek denemedir.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This paper addresses two main questions in regards to the devshirme system: how did the devshirme system function at a local level and how were local politics triggered by the levy; and what were the experiences of the children who were levied. Utilizing a unique register called sürü defter that lists children who were levied in 1603-4, the system is traced in the region of Bursa in 1603-4. The mühimme defters and court records from Bursa are also referenced. Besides examining the bureaucratic implications of carrying out the devshirme, one of the important questions addressed is what did it mean to be a Christian child in the early modern Ottoman world. Issues such as who these children were, how they were selected as devshirmes, and how they reacted to being selected or not, are considered here. The paper shows that reactions to the child-levy by the families and children involved varied across a spectrum – from resistance to desirability. This paper also looks at where these children were selected, their age, appearance, and health as registered in the documents, as well as what happened to them after their arrival in the capital, Istanbul. We also learn that locally powerful figures in Bursa such as landlords, voyvodas, kadıs, subasıs, formed groups to lobby the levy officers in order to influence their decisions.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>devshirme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  early modern childhood</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Bursa</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  acemi oglan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ottoman children</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>devşirme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  erken modern dönemde çocukluk</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Bursa</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  acemi oğlan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Osmanlı çocuklar</kwd>
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