Empire of Taxonomy: Ethnic and Religious Identities in the Ottoman Surveys and Censuses

Dündar, Fuat

doi:10.1080/00263206.2014.913134

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“…The population registers of 1830 and 1839 classified the population under the commonly and officially recognized ethnoreligious identities - Muslim, Orthodox Christian, Armenian, Catholic, Jewish, and (Muslim and non-Muslim) Roma 28 . Muslim and non-Muslim populations were counted in separate registers.…”

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A nineteenth-century urban Ottoman population micro dataset: Data extraction and relational database curation from the 1840s pre-census Bursa population registers

Kabadayı,

Erünal

2024

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In recent decades, the “big microdata revolution” has transformed access to transcribed historical census data for social science research. However, the population records of the Ottoman Empire, spanning Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, remained inaccessible to the big microdata ecosystem due to their prolonged unavailability. This publication marks the inaugural release of complete population data for an Ottoman urban center, Bursa, derived from the 1839 population registers. The dataset presents originally non-tabulated register data in a tabular format integrated into a relational Microsoft Access database. Thus, we showcase the extensive and diverse data found in the Ottoman population registers, demonstrating a level of quality and sophistication akin to the censuses conducted worldwide in the nineteenth century. This valuable resource, whose potential has been massively underexploited, is now presented in an accessible format compatible with global microdata repositories. Our aim with this dataset is to enable historical demographic studies for the Ottoman realm and beyond, while also broadening access to the datasets constructed by our large research team.

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A nineteenth-century urban Ottoman population micro dataset: Data extraction and relational database curation from the 1840s pre-census Bursa population registers

Kabadayı,

Erünal

2024

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“…20 Although not alien to hierarchically structured systems of governance and religious forms of subordination given their experience in the Ottoman homeland, Armenian migrants nevertheless felt mortified upon encountering such a grim and ethnicist reality, divided along strict white/non-white racial lines. 21 This and their strong determination to stay in Fresno and readily interact with their white American neighbors drove them to consider ways of holding onto a racialized identity endorsed by white supremacist elites. Moreover, Armenian migrants' desire to own arable land in the country further complicated the terms of Armenian repatriation to the Ottoman Empire.…”

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Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908–1914)

Torosian

2021

Mashriq&Mahjar

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, droves of former Ottoman subjects including Armenians and Syrians began to set foot in the United States searching for better opportunities. Many faced American white supremacist xenophobia and fell victim to racial discrimination. Various Ottoman diasporic communities responded to this harassment by expressing an increasing investment in the question of American whiteness and vigorously yearning to move beyond its fringes. Their voices, however, remain considerably muted; their stories are largely excluded from most American immigration narratives and conventional area-studies histories. This study endeavors to help reverse this scholarly tradition by examining the mindset of Ottoman Armenian expatriates as articulated in the editorials of Asbarēz, an Armenian-language weekly published in Fresno, California starting in 1908. As this micro-study shows, the migrants used the European racialist knowledge imported from the Ottoman empire to lay claim to whiteness and achieve integration in the US but also to affect change at home.

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“…As evidenced by the Ottoman census of 1903, both the administration and the population found that official denominational categories no longer corresponded to local practices of self-identification. Thus, the recognition of the Vlachs as a millet in May 1905, granting them administrative recognition and religious autonomy by virtue of ethnic distinction, was part of the complicated evolution of what a millet could mean (Yosmaoğlu 2006, 65; Dundar 2015, 14).…”

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Inventing a Prosthetic Bourgeoisie: Romania and the Aromanians, 1848–1906

Sorescu

2021

Nationalities Papers

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The present article focuses on the period between 1848 and 1906—between the politicized “discovery” of Balkan Aromanians as a kinfolk by Romanian nation-state builders and the aftermath of the community’s recognition by the Ottoman government. Examining how Romania imagined its own entanglement in the Macedonian Question, the article aims to raise the broader question of how a nation-state imagined the agency of kinfolk beyond its borders and, as part of a geographically distributed national division of labor, ascribed a specific task to one part of its ethnic body. In Romania’s case, this had a double thrust. One, Aromanians were imagined as the natural bourgeoisie of the southern Balkans, a people superior in their origins, culture, and mores to other ethnic groups—and a natural vanguard for Romania’s economic interests in the region. Two, they were imagined as a vanguard for catalyzing the internal development of a native merchant class in Romania proper, which was understood as a primary agent for economic and social progress but perceived to be problematically absent. Thus, this study hones in on the process of ascribing the status of a “prosthetic bourgeoisie” to the Aromanians, and its insistent discursive recurrence.

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Empire of Taxonomy: Ethnic and Religious Identities in the Ottoman Surveys and Censuses

Cited by 6 publications

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A nineteenth-century urban Ottoman population micro dataset: Data extraction and relational database curation from the 1840s pre-census Bursa population registers

A nineteenth-century urban Ottoman population micro dataset: Data extraction and relational database curation from the 1840s pre-census Bursa population registers

Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908–1914)

Inventing a Prosthetic Bourgeoisie: Romania and the Aromanians, 1848–1906

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