Elibüyük, MesutGümüşçü, Osman2022-05-242022-05-241997http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/80404This study, which was done from the point of wiew of historical geography, based on the Mufassal Tahrir Defters in Ottoman Archives, is the first research study that no geographist has been interested in our country. Larende and its surroundings are a place where there has always been settlement for thousands of years due to its convenient conditions. The rural settlement densty that was seen almost all ages in Larende and its surroundings, which were the economic, cultural, and administrative center of a vast region, peaked in XV "', especially XVI "' century. In the XVI1' century, 82 % of 194 villages in Larende Kaza was localized, but only 40 % of them was able to survive. In the following ages sowe of the villages in this area disappeared due to several reasons, and new villages were gradually established under different names. Allthough Larende which was the Sancak center at the beginning of XVI th century, regressed first to a Kaza - center and then to a Nahiye - center due to some later changes, it maintained its economic and cultural importance. Because rural areas had conveinent conditions too, the population that started to increased three - fold in 84 years. The average rate of annual population increase in Larende Kaza (including urban and rural areas) was gound to be 13 %o. According to the calculations we did, this result with the 1 0 - 1 5 %o average rate of the annual population increase in Anatolia in XVI * century. However, in XVII "' century, economic recessions occured due to the increase in agricultural areas, and the decrease of cultivation rate according to the average rate of population increase together with other negative effects. Thus, agricultural areas were broken apart, and there were no more areas for the villagers to cultivate. Fertility was affected negatively, thus caused a decrease in cultivation Therefore, most of the people lost their jobs and (being Çiftbozan or Levend) became bandits or rebels. All these regressions led villagers, already about to leave their villages, to migrate to towns. According to the documents, these migrations, which had began in about 1 541, gradually increased towards to the end of the century. According to the documents belonging to the year 1584, in Larende Kaza, where there were also migrations from one rural-area to another, the average rate of the Nefers, who joined the migrations, was under even 2 % of the total number of the Nefers. 242trCoğrafyadoctoralThesis