Volume 1

A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill.

  • Aaron Hill
Date:
1709
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Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the Channels of remoter Governments, poffefs’d in their feveral De- rrrees bv Bcylerbeys, SAKgUtk Beys, Bsijbaws, Beys and 1 S t\ei\ one of which Offices I fiiall largely Treat of in their reffeSive flaces; divifion T H E Formidable Empire of thefe Succefsful Infidels is divided mto ot their tin- Xwentv Two Parts, each Divifion ot fo vaft Extent, as exceeds the Mag ,,ire- nitude of many of our European Kingdoms, and govern’d by its BeyMeji, or Arch-Duke, for of all ChrsftUn Titles there is none which can more nearly exprefs the nature of that Office ; every one of thefe Arch-Duke¬ doms is divided into certain unequal Numbers of Sangiach or Provinces, fome containing Twenty, fome not more than Seven, Ten, or Tifteen, . according to which Numbers the Arch-Dukedoms are more or .efs Pioh- ahe Sangiach table tQ Governours; over every Province there is p ac d a Ruler, diflinguiffi’d by the Title of SswgUck-Bey, or Lord Provincial : Thefe de¬ pend upon, and are fubfervient to, the ieveral Arch-Dukes under whom they live. • , INFERIOR to the Lords Provincial are die Beys, or Lords of the feveral Partitions into which the above-nam’d Provinces are divided ? Thefe have under them another fort of Lords, diftinguifh’d by the Name of Ae£s% or Captains of a certain Number of Towns or Villages and their rhc Aga. ‘Dependencies, all which Officers have their feveral Courts of Juftice, pe¬ culiar to the different Nature of the Governments they hold, and yet are link’d together in the joint Promotion of one Common Intereit, and a firm Obedience to the Sacred Will of their Great Lord the Suit an, . i I he Bafhaw. BESIDES thefe Arch-Dukedoms feverally Subject to their refpechve Bevlerbeys, there are certain Parts of the Empire independant on tnofe Divifions, and altogether Subje& to the Government of Bajbam, a 1 ltle almoft equal to that of Prince, and generally born by fuch Men as having gradually Afcended from die meaneff Offices, have inur’d their Minds and Bodies to the rougheft Changes that can befall Mortality, and having prov d their Knowledge by a fuccefsful Difintangling the occurring Intricacies of State and W ar, diftinguifhably Shine by the confpicuity of their Me¬ rits, and Succeed alternately to the Higheft Offices of their Unlnaken Empire. BUT that I may explain more fully the unimagin’d Grandeur of the Turkifb Emperors, I will particularize the feveral Governments of all the Bevlerbeys, and the Number of thofe extenfive Provinces over which they prefide ; that by confidering the numerous Opportunities the Grand Signwr is Mailer of, whereby to Reward the Fidelity of his Subjects, the Reader may no longer wonder at the Support of his Authority. Thcil Arch THE Twenty Two Arch-Dukedoms before mention’d are diffin- Dukedoms n-uifh’d among the Turks by the following Names, Anatolia, Caramaata,, of the Tatkijh ijiarbellir Scbam, Simas, Efrum) Pafcba, Chiidir, Cheruzul, Halep, Marajb, P Kjbros, Tripoly, Terbotan, K*rs, Mufui, Rika, RUmee!i,K*pudan Bojna, Graud-Cairo and Babylon; of which the Governours of the Two Lalt receive their Salaries from the Treafury ot the Sultan i I he Fuff, which is the , Higheft Government in the Grand SignioTs Dominions, lias a \caily Re¬ venue of Three Hundred Thoufand Pounds ; the Salary ot the Lair exceeds rhe Salaries not Six Thoufand Pounds per annum ; but the numerous Advantages f theijafhaws wliicli accruefrom his Perquifites afford him daily Opportunities of a mailing 'Lb]Un. ad vaff heaps of Riches. THE