defterdar (treasurer)

E395266

Ottoman government office financial official

The defterdar was a high-ranking Ottoman financial official responsible for overseeing the empire’s treasury, revenues, and fiscal administration.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
defterdar	1
defterdar (treasurer) canonical	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ottoman government office ⓘ financial official ⓘ
associatedWith	land and tax registers ⓘ tax-farming (iltizam) ⓘ timar system ⓘ
country	Ottoman Empire ⓘ
domain	public finance ⓘ state accounting ⓘ taxation ⓘ
etymology	derived from Arabic "daftar" (register, ledger) ⓘ
hadMultipleHolders	yes ⓘ
hasRank	high-ranking official ⓘ vizierial rank (in some periods) ⓘ
jurisdiction	central treasury ⓘ imperial revenues ⓘ
languageOfTitle	Ottoman Turkish ⓘ
memberOf	Ottoman court ⓘ surface form: Ottoman central administration imperial council ⓘ
partOf	Ottoman financial bureaucracy ⓘ
pluralForm	defterdars ⓘ
positionInHierarchy	one of the highest financial offices in the empire ⓘ
reportsTo	sultan ⓘ
responsibleFor	budget management ⓘ expenditure control ⓘ financial record-keeping ⓘ fiscal administration ⓘ imperial treasury ⓘ military finances ⓘ payroll of state officials ⓘ provincial revenue registers ⓘ state revenues ⓘ tax collection oversight ⓘ
role	treasurer of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
seatOfOffice	Topkapi Palace ⓘ
successorOffice	Ministry of Finance (in late Ottoman reforms) ⓘ
supervises	provincial financial officials ⓘ revenue collection apparatus ⓘ scribes of the treasury ⓘ
timePeriod	classical period of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ early modern period ⓘ
usedInstrument	defter (tax register) ⓘ financial ledgers ⓘ
variantForm	anatoli defterdarı ⓘ başdefterdar (chief defterdar) ⓘ rumeli defterdarı ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ottoman authorities → includesOffice → defterdar (treasurer) ⓘ

imperial council of the Ottoman Empire → member → defterdar (treasurer) ⓘ

subject surface form: Imperial Council of the Ottoman Empire

this entity surface form: defterdar