The importance of temettuat books in lokal history teaching: Mudanya district temettuat books sample

The main purpose of this research is to examine the temettuat registers, which are among the Ottoman archive sources, from a socio-economic perspective and to reveal the importance of these registers in terms of local history teaching. The sample of the research consists of the dividend registers of the central neighborhoods of Mudanya district with the numbers 9079, 9085, 9091, 9094 and 9097 in the Ottoman Archives. Temettuat books are books kept in many regions of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century as a result of real estate, land and animal censuses in order to determine the assets of individuals and to collect taxes according to the financial strength of individuals. In this research, archive documents were examined using the archive and document method, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The findings obtained from the archive documents in question were analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method and interpreted to form a meaningful integrity. It was determined how the findings obtained from the dividend books examined within the scope of the research could be used in the teaching of local and socio-economic history subjects, supported by tables and graphs. Within the framework of the sub problems identified together with the main problem of the research, the importance of the data obtained from the dividend books in terms of teaching local history in the context of basic history skills has been revealed. Depending on the results of the research, students, teachers and academics should use temettuat notebooks more in teaching relevant history subjects in order to develop historical literacy skills, historian skills and historical thinking skills. Keywords: history teaching, local history teaching, skill-based history teaching, temettuat registers, Mudanya district.