The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the MagnificentLybyer, Albert Howe
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The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent
Lybyer, Albert Howe
Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566; Turkey -- Politics and government
All the aforesaid _Sanjaks_, _Beylerbeys_, Pashas, and other
officials have salary or feudal income, as I have said above,
by fixed arrangement, that is, regularly: but they obtain from
extraordinary sources about as much more. And they live with
very great expenses for slaves: these they are accustomed to
clothe and they give them also wages besides, so that they will
not steal.
How great the revenues of this Signor are, may be estimated from the
expenses. These revenues are obtained from the Kharâj, which is paid by
the non-Turkish subjects; this gives a million and a half ducats: from
the tax on animals, which gives eight hundred thousand ducats: from
mines, which give six hundred thousand ducats: from countless other
duties, salt-taxes, commendations, inheritances, gifts, the revenues of
Egypt over and above the expenses, rents, and tributes. And they are so
great that they not only meet the expenses, which amount besides the
feudal income in ready money drawn from the Treasury to more than twelve
thousand ducats a day;[794] but there remains over a great sum of money
from the surplus of each year. And it is believed that all the revenues
amount to fifteen millions in gold: five of which enter the Treasury, and
the other ten remain for the servants of war.[795]
APPENDIX II
PAMPHLET OF JUNIS BEY AND ALVISE GRITTI
Printed in 1537. Presented in the original Italian.
OPERA NOUA LA QUALE DECHIARA
tutto il gouerno del gran Turcho & tutta
la Spesa che il gran Turcho ha sotto
di lui cosi in pace como in guerra
& il numero de le Persone & nome
& gouerno de le sue Donne
& Garzoni che lui tene
nel Serraglio serrati &
de tutta la Entrata che
lui ha a lanno & nomina
tutti li Signori
de le sue
prouincie:
E il nome de tutte le sue terre chelha
sotto se: & la ordināza del suo Campo
quādo ua ala guerra como
ua in ordinanza tutte le
persone a sorte per
sorte & come
uanno e
che arme portano. Nouamente stampata
nel M D X X X V I I.
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