APPLICATION of CASH EQUIVALENT for AUXILIARY SOLDIER LEVY in THE PROVINCE of SIVAS in 1722-23

Cebelü is an auxiliary soldier equipped by the timar-holders who are obliged to take to campaigns in the framework of the timar system in the Ottomans. The obligations of auxiliary soldier of timar-holders are designated in the law-books. According to the rules in these law-books, the timar-holding cavalrymen were to furnish a cebelü for every 3,000 ak？es above their own timars; the zeamet-holding cavalrymen who held timars of more than 20,000 ak？es a cebelü for every 5,000 ak？es after the first 5,000 ak？es of theirs timars. The timar-holding and zeamet-holding cavalrymen who were to bring with them cebelü, when they did not take cebelü to campaigns, could pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy. According to the existence literature, the application of pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy became widespread in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because of the change of war techniques, decreasing of the necessity of the timar-holding cavalrymen and increase of the necessity for money of the treasury. It is necessary to new works in the level of provinces in order to determine that the application of pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy became widespread or not. For this reason, the pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy register of 1722-23 of the province of Sivas was analysed analytically. First of all, the information in register were put into tables and then the data in tables were evaluated with the help of the existed literature. In the result of the evaluation, the number of cebelü obligations of child, retired and other timar-holding and zeamet-holding cavalrymen; those who excepted from pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy; cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy paid per cebelü; the collecting of pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy and their ways to deliver to the Treasure; and the services to which the revenues of pay cash equivalent for auxiliary soldier levy were assigned are determined