Ottoman Armenian Document #58
2100 Yalnız iki bin yüz kuruştur. Tehcir dolayısıyla Hazine-i Evkaf namına senede rabt edilip bu kere namıma tashih kaydı icra kılınan mağazamın 332 ve 333 seneleri bedel-i icarı olan ber vech-i bâlâ iki bin yüz kuruşu Tosya Evkaf Sandığından aldım. 7 Ağustos 1335 Andonyan Hacı Kazaros (imza) Fasl 9 Madde 1 Makam-ı müdiriyetin 14 Nisan 335 tarih ve 5/1 numerolu havalenamesi mucibince sarfı lazkm gelir. 7 Ağustos 335
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Ottoman Armenian Document #58Scope and Content
2100 — Only two thousand one hundred kuruş. Due to the deportation (tehcir), my shop had been registered in the name of the Treasury of Pious Foundations (Hazine-i Evkaf) and entered into the register accordingly; on this occasion, the registration has been corrected and recorded in my name. I have received from the Tosya Pious Foundations Treasury (Tosya Evkaf Sandığı) the sum of two thousand one hundred kuruş, as stated above, being the rental income (bedel-i icar) for the years 1332 (1916) and 1333 (1917) of my shop. 7 August 1335 (7 August 1919) Andonyan (or Doryan?) Hacı Kazaros (Ghazaros) (signature) Section (Fasl) 9, Article (Madde) 1 In accordance with the remittance/order (havalenâme) of the Directorate (Makam-ı Müdüriyet) dated 14 April 1335 (14 April 1919) and numbered 5/1, the expenditure/payment is required to be made. 7 August 1335 (7 August 1919) __________________________________________________ This document records that Andonyan Hacı Kazaros received 2,100 kuruş in back rent on 7 August 1919 for his shop in Tosya, which had been placed under the Treasury of Pious Foundations (Evkaf) during the Armenian deportations (Tehcir). The shop had originally been registered under Evkaf control because of the deportations, but its registration was later corrected back into his name. The payment covered rental income for the years 1916–1918 (Rumi 1332–1333) and was issued under an official administrative order. For Ottoman Armenians, 1919 was a period of devastation and uncertainty in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide and wartime deportations (1915–1917). Survivors were attempting to reclaim confiscated homes, shops, land, and communal properties, often through Ottoman bureaucratic processes. In some places, deportees and refugees slowly returned, while elsewhere local resistance, insecurity, or occupation complicated recovery. The Ottoman state, under Allied pressure, had begun limited investigations and trials related to wartime deportations and massacres, including the 1919–1920 courts-martial in Istanbul. But enforcement was weak and conditions unstable.Category
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