Property Deed #9
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Property Deed #9Scope and Content
This Ottoman-era property deed, dated June 1306 (June 1889), records the sale of agricultural land in the village of Körpe in the Kharpert region, a historically Armenian-populated province of the Ottoman Empire. The village itself was entirely Armenian. The transaction involves Hoca Davud (Davit?), a subject of the Sublime Ottoman State, who sold one share out of three shares of a field to his brother, Konstantin. The land, valued at one hundred kuruş, was registered in the Belâda land register and officially recorded in the Defter-i Hakanî (imperial land registry), with witnesses present in Constantinople. The transfer was executed as a formal sale rather than a relinquishment (firağ), and, as with all miri (state-owned) land, the annual religious tithe (i‘şâr) was to be paid by the holder as a condition of continued use. The property measured one kile in seed capacity and covered one dönüm, eleven evlek, and seventy-seven arşın. It was bounded by the lands of Ağalık, Aşık Oğlu, and Çaykaralık. The land was classified as miri—state-owned land granted for cultivation—and the terrain was described as rocky. The recorded sale price was one hundred kuruş.Category
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