Becoming A Millionaire in the Ottoman Empire; The Early 18th Century Rich in Galata

It is important that who is the owner of wealth and how wealth is occured in the Ottoman Empire. Probate records in Shari'a courts are giving reasonable informaton in studies on this subject. The purpose of this article is to evaluate on probate records the fortunes of Galata accident which is a important center of commerce the diplomatic center of the Ottoman Empire. In this study, it is evaluated in day of the probate records of people who are millionaires, enormously wealthy in the early 18th century. This work seeks to reveal the source of wealth in Galata as a micro. Although the evaluations considers the Galata accident, it gives an idea about the factors in the Ottoman Empire that may take as macros in the occurrence of fortune. The people are the ones who have income over a million today billionaires expressed as reserve that we refer to as the owners of wealth