UrbanOccupationsOETR_1844/45 Bursa Region Temettuat Agricultural Production Dataset

Abstract

<strong>‘UrbanOccupationsOETR_1844/45 Bursa Region Temettuat Agricultural Production Dataset’</strong> is constructed first by manual data entry from the Ottoman temettuat registers (available at the Turkish Presidency State Archives of the Republic of Turkey – Department of Ottoman Archives, (ML. VRD. TMT. d.) collection) into our customized relational database and then by making a selection available in spreadsheet format. <br> Our team located, curated, and extracted agricultural production data for a total of 81 geosampled villages from the Bursa region for 1844/45. We coded both agricultural production areas as well as product type using the Corine Land Cover nomenclature (CLC2018, https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/corine-land-cover-nomenclature-guidelines/html) and made available only the category, ‘2.1.1 Non-irrigated arable land’ (https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/corine-land-cover-nomenclature-guidelines/html/index-clc-211.html), as a proxy for grain production. <strong>02122020-A5_Total</strong> count of agricultural entries CLC 2.1.1 coded, qualified (dönüm and convertible) and quantified (numerical value)<br> provides data on the cultivated area in square meters of 4,657 units, belonging to 3,019 producers, of 2,892 households, in 81 villages. <strong>02122020_T6_Total</strong> count of tithe tax entries CLC 2.1.1 coded, qualified (kile and convertible), and quantified (numerical value)<br> provides data on production volumes in kgs of 4,516 units, belonging to 1,924 producers, of 1,873 households, in 70 villages. <br> Please cite the below paper in your publications if you use the dataset: Ustaoglu, Eda, M. Erdem Kabadayı, and Petrus Johannes Gerrits, ‘The Estimation of Non-Irrigated Crop Area and Production Using the Regression Analysis Approach: A Case Study of Bursa Region (Turkey) in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’, PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (30 April 2021): e0251091, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251091.