The analysis and evaluation of Kosova temettuat register numbered 15467

Reform period has an important place in the Ottoman history. In this period, some kinds of improvement were done in the military and social areas to organize state?s economy and not to fall behind of improving western countries. An important activity which was performed within this frame was to organize temettuat register. This register includes important information about people?s social and economical conditions living in the country. House number in accommodation units, family leaders? names, their vocations as well as their goods, their annual income and taxes they paid were registered to this book. These taxes reflects the social and economical conditions of that accommodation unit. People?s ethnicity, their beliefs and activities are mentioned in this register. Kosovo temettuat register was recorded in 1845 (H/1261). According to the records in this register, Kosovo is seen as a sub-district bound to Pristine. Most of the people who lived in this accommodation place ,which was composed of 32 villages, were nonmuslims. Existing sources of the people living in this accommodation place are agriculture and breeding. The soil was abundant in parallel with the guantity of cultivated areas. In this registers, which were organized according to family leaders? names, muslims and non-muslims were regarded as equal and taxes such as vergi-yi mahsusa and ösür were collected in the same amounts. Inconsistencies in this records, which were organized to provide tax equity, shows that objectives couldn?t be reached in expected rate. Keywords: Temettuat Register, Kosova, Demograpic Structure