Some issues according to the “Great book of Gurjistan’s Vilayet of 1574 year”

Abstract

The paper deals with the historical past of Southwest Georgia, which led to the overthrow of the Ottoman-occupied Georgian provinces and the establishment of an Ottoman socio-political system in the country. As it is known, from the first half of the XVI century the Ottomans invaded Southwest Georgia and created Ottoman sanjaks. Over the centuries, both the territory of Georgia and the names of the toponyms have been changed. The population was being displaced and their national and confessional structure or economic life was changed. Our study of the „Great Book of Gurjistan’s Vilayet of 1574“ is studied in detail in terms of administrative-territorial arrangement, and it deals with the distribution of agriculture, particularly the distribution of cereal crops, and the number of taxes by livas and Nahies. From the statistical point of view, the villages, ruined villages, grazing lands / dominion grazing lands, chiptliq, summer pastures, fortress, church, district and vineyard of the XVI century Gurjistan’s Vilayet livas and Nahies. Taxes on the major agricultural crops (wheat, barley, rye, millet, lucerne / hay, pea, chick-pea, lentils, flax) are being verified in Gurjistan’s Vilayet livas and Nahies.