Khairu-d-din Efendí, his Majesty’s Khojah; Seidi Chelebi, of Kastemúni; Sheikh Mohammed Jiví-zádeh; Mollah Sheikh Mohammed Ben Kotbu-d-din; Mollah Mohammed Ben Ahmed Ben ’Adíl-pasha, an excellent historian and a good Persian poet; Mollah Abdul-fattáh Ebn Ahmed ’Adíl Pasha, a native of Berdá, in Persia, and an amiable and intelligent man; Sheikh Mohammed, of Tunis, an excellent reader of the Korán, the whole of which he knew by heart; Zehíru-d-din, who came from Tabríz, and was hanged at Cairo with the traitor Ahmed Pasha; Mollah Mohammed, a pupil of Kemál Pasha-zádeh; Mevlená Yakúb, commonly called Ajéh Khaliféh, professor at Magnesia, where he died, A.H. 969 (A.D. 1562); ’Ala’ud-dín Jemáli, Sheikhu-l-Islám (i.e. Grand Mufti), which office he held also under Sultan Selím I.; the Sheikhu-l-Islám Kemál Pasha-zadéh Ahmed, who was Kázi-asker of Egypt under Selím I., and is celebrated for his literary productions; the Sheikhu-l-Islam Abú-u-ssaod Efendí, who wrote nearly a thousand treatises, and whose Commentary on the Korán is highly valued: a volume might be written in his praise; Mevlena-Mohíu-d-dín Arab-zédeh, who was drowned on his passage to Egypt; Mevlena Ali, who wrote the Humáyiún Námeh (the Turkish translation of Pilpay’s Fables); he was buried at Brusá.

The Kanún-námeh or Statistical Code of the Empire, drawn up by Sultán Suleïmán.

Section I.

The Province of Rúmeïli contains 24 Sanjaks, 1,227 Ziámets, 12,377 Timárs.

Bodin17Sanjaks,278Ziámets,2,391Timárs.
Ozi (Oczakov),6ditto188ditto1,186ditto
Bosnia,7ditto150ditto1,792ditto
Temesvar6ditto190ditto1,090ditto
Archipelago15ditto73ditto1,884ditto
Egra9ditto1,081ditto4,000ditto
——7ditto77ditto2,007ditto
Kaffa9ditto(It has neither Ziámets nor Timárs).
Morea5ditto,but no Ziámets or Timárs.
Varadin5ditto.

Ardil (Transylvania) pays an annual tribute of 3,000 purses; as do also Aflák (Wallachia), and Bóghdán (Moldavia). The Crimea has no Ziámets or Timárs, but is governed by Kháns. Rodós (Rhodes) has five Sanjaks; Kubrus (Cyprus) seven, and Candia thirteen Sanjaks; making, in all, 167 Sanjaks, 3,306 Ziámets, and 37,379 Timárs.

Anatóli has14Sanjaks,399Ziámets,5,589Timárs.
Karman7ditto68ditto2,211ditto
——7ditto108ditto3,699ditto
Miráish4ditto29ditto215ditto
Shám (Damascus),2ditto138ditto1,865ditto
Trabalós4ditto63ditto571ditto
Seida (Sidon)4ditto94ditto995ditto
Halep (Aleppo), has5ditto99ditto833ditto
Adna5ditto43ditto1,659ditto
Roha2ditto4ditto6,026ditto
Díárbekr12ditto926ditto926ditto
Erzerúm9ditto133ditto5,159ditto
Trebizonde2ditto56ditto398ditto
Gurjístán (Georgia) has no Sanjaks, Ziámets, or Timárs.
Kars6ditto1ditto1,363ditto
Jíldir13ditto49ditto689ditto
Ván24ditto46ditto2,695ditto
Mosúl3ditto66ditto1,004ditto
Sheherzúl21ditto15ditto806ditto

Baghdád has no ziámet or timár, but is held on an annual lease, as are also Basrah and Lahsa: Yemen is governed by an Imám; Habesh (Abyssinia) is subject to a tributary Sultán; Mesr (Egypt), Jezáïr (Algiers), Tunis and Trabalos (Tripoli), are held by annual leases. There are in all 151 sanjaks, 1,571 ziámets, 41,286 timárs.

All the land of the Ottoman empire is divided into three parts: the khás humáyún, or crown lands; the lands given to the vezírs and begler-begs; and the lands divided into ziámets and timárs.

Section II.