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“This was a system of land tenure and taxation that allowed military officers to collect taxes from assigned land in exchange for their military service. These new lands, which remained the sultan's legal property, were divided according to their tax value, called ‘timar,’ and were given to the Turcoman warriors and their leaders.”
“This was a system of land tenure and taxation that allowed military officers to collect taxes from assigned land in exchange for their military service. These new lands, which remained the sultan's legal property, were divided according to their tax value, called ‘timar,’ and were given to the Turcoman warriors and their leaders.”