Defter
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A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. ==Etymology== The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus as paper in Ancient Greece, borrowed into Arabic as : , meaning a register or a notebook. ==References== ==External links== Publications of Turkey's Directorate of State Archives
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