Defterdar
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Defterdars were top officials in charge of the finances in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

, including heads of the Ottoman provincial treasuries; they were responsible for defters
Defter
A Defter was a type of tax register in the Ottoman Empire. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads , ethnicity/religion , and land use.The defter-i hakâni was a land registry, also used for tax...

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Some grand viziers of defterdar origin

  • Piri Mehmet Pasha
  • Nevesinli Salih Pasha
    Nevesinli Salih Pasha
    Nevesinli Salih Pasha was a 17th century Ottoman grand vizier .- Early years :Salih Pasha was a Herzegovinian from Nevesinje. During the reign of Murat IV, he was a bureaucrat specialized in treasury. Although, he worked in some other posts as well, finally during the reign of İbrahim, in 1644, he...

  • Hezarpare Ahmet Pasha
    Hezarpare Ahmet Pasha
    Hezarpare Ahmet Pasha was an 17th century Ottoman grand vizier.-Early life:He was a son of a professional soldier of probably Greek origin. But he chose bureaucracy. He was appointed to several posts one of which was the personal secretarial of the grand vizier Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha...

  • Sofu Mehmet Pasha
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