Defter
Sign in to savethumb | right | A page from an Ottoman defter from the year 1455 A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
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thumb | right | A page from an Ottoman defter from the year 1455 A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
==Etymology== The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus as paper in Ancient Greece, borrowed into Arabic as : , meaning a register or a notebook.
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