Defter
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Defter (from Persian دفتر: daftar meaning book, registry, and in modern time office or bureau) was a cadastral tax census carried out by the Ottoman Empire.
The defters collected information about villages, dwellings, household heads (adult males and widows), and ethnicities.
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