Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IEvliya Çelebi
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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
Khairu-d-din Efendí, his Majesty’s Khojah; Seidi Chelebi, of Kastemúni;
Sheikh Mohammed Jiví-zádeh; Mollah Sheikh Mohammed Ben Kotbu-d-din;
Mollah Mohammed Ben Ahmed Ben ’Adíl-pasha, an excellent historian and
a good Persian poet; Mollah Abdul-fattáh Ebn Ahmed ’Adíl Pasha, a
native of Berdá, in Persia, and an amiable and intelligent man; Sheikh
Mohammed, of Tunis, an excellent reader of the Korán, the whole of
which he knew by heart; Zehíru-d-din, who came from Tabríz, and was
hanged at Cairo with the traitor Ahmed Pasha; Mollah Mohammed, a pupil
of Kemál Pasha-zádeh; Mevlená Yakúb, commonly called Ajéh Khaliféh,
professor at Magnesia, where he died, A.H. 969 (A.D. 1562); ’Ala’ud-dín
Jemáli, Sheikhu-l-Islám (_i.e._ Grand Mufti), which office he held
also under Sultan Selím I.; the Sheikhu-l-Islám Kemál Pasha-zadéh
Ahmed, who was Kázi-asker of Egypt under Selím I., and is celebrated
for his literary productions; the Sheikhu-l-Islam Abú-u-ssaod Efendí,
who wrote nearly a thousand treatises, and whose Commentary on the
Korán is highly valued: a volume might be written in his praise;
Mevlena-Mohíu-d-dín Arab-zédeh, who was drowned on his passage
to Egypt; Mevlena Ali, who wrote the Humáyiún Námeh (the Turkish
translation of Pilpay’s Fables); he was buried at Brusá.
_The Kanún-námeh or Statistical Code of the Empire, drawn up by Sultán
Suleïmán._
Section I.
The Province of Rúmeïli contains 24 Sanjaks, 1,227 Ziámets, 12,377
Timárs.
Bodin 17 Sanjaks, 278 Ziámets, 2,391 Timárs.
Ozi (Oczakov), 6 ditto 188 ditto 1,186 ditto
Bosnia, 7 ditto 150 ditto 1,792 ditto
Temesvar 6 ditto 190 ditto 1,090 ditto
Archipelago 15 ditto 73 ditto 1,884 ditto
Egra 9 ditto 1,081 ditto 4,000 ditto
—— 7 ditto 77 ditto 2,007 ditto
Kaffa 9 ditto (It has neither Ziámets nor Timárs).
Morea 5 ditto, but no Ziámets or Timárs.
Varadin 5 ditto.
Ardil (Transylvania) pays an annual tribute of 3,000 purses; as do also
Aflák (Wallachia), and Bóghdán (Moldavia). The Crimea has no Ziámets
or Timárs, but is governed by Kháns. Rodós (Rhodes) has five Sanjaks;
Kubrus (Cyprus) seven, and Candia thirteen Sanjaks; making, in all, 167
Sanjaks, 3,306 Ziámets, and 37,379 Timárs.
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