THE MUSLIM POPULATION AND SETTLEMENTS IN SAMAKOV ACCORDING TO THE DATE BC. 1246/AD. 1831 and NUMBERED 6150-6151 POPULATION REGISTERS

The population censuses, which are carried out to determine mostly taxpayers and those who are in military service age in the Ottoman Empire, provide opportunity to obtain information in administrative, military, religious and cultural fields; especially social and economic structure of the societies. Based on this reality, in this study, in which population registers of the Samakov district dated BC. 1246/AD. 1831 and numbered 6150-6151, were examined, the Muslim quarters and townships in the district and the number of Muslim male population in the district, their names, nicknames and personal characteristics were tried to be determined. It is aimed to make inference about demographic structure of the Muslim population in Samakov district, with this feature of the study. In this study, it was determined that number of the Muslim male population in Samakov district in 1831 was 1,907 and majority of them resided in the neighbourhoods of the central district.