Society of the Ottoman Empire

thumb|304x304px|Illustration of an Ottoman official and his assistant registering Christian boys for the devshirme. The official takes a tax to cover the price of the boys' new red clothes and the cost of transport from their home, while the assistant records their village, district and province, parentage, date of birth and physical appearance. Ottoman miniature painting, 1558.

legal court

The Yishuv (), '''HaYishuv Ha'ivri (), or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el''' () was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in that region, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were some 630,000 Jews there. The term is still in use to denote the pre-1948 Jewish residents in Palestine, corresponding to the southern part of Ottoman Syria until 1918, OETA South in 1917–1920, and Mandatory Palestine in 1920–1948.

slave system

thumb|right|400px|Süleymaniye Mosque and Külliye in [[Istanbul]]

license issued by the ottoman authorities

local nobility under the Ottomans

thumb|369x369px|Map of Anatolia in the early 14th century

The mukhtar (; ; ) was a civilian administrator, a type of lesser mayor, in villages and neighbourhoods in the Ottoman Empire. The office was retained in the local administration of the Republic of Turkey as a village or neighbourhood mayor. It also exists in modern Lebanon as an elected local official, and in Gaza as a honorific for clan elders.

'''''' is a Turkish word which means "corporation". During the Early Modern Period belonging to a guild gave people a voice and was an important part of one's identity. Handicraft producers were linked to one another by a range of social, political, and economic ties. Guilds varied among societies, social class, and genders. There were many misconceptions, differences, as well as similarities between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. There were hierarchies within guilds; sometimes they shared tools, worked together, or worked alone.

languages of the former empire and its peoples

Lubunca, Labunca or Lubunyaca is a secret Turkish cant and slang used by sex workers and the LGBTQ community in Turkey. The term originated from the root lubni, which is the Romani word for "prostitute".