Abstract
The administrative organization that the Ottoman Empire practiced in the eastern border was quite different from the structures that employed in the central part of the empire. Undoubtedly, the two major rivals, Ottomans and Iranians, here struggled for domination over this region. The Ottomans employed and called the administrative structure of the region as the sovereign (hukumet) and the dynasty estate (yurtluk-ocaklık) sanjaks. Among these many sanjaks, one of the least known was the Estate of Mihrani which has not been studied yet by any other research by details. Another feature of the Mihrani Estate was that this administrative unit has both an autonomous status and also a name of a tribal organization that settled in three different regions. In the study, the timar system applied in the Mihrani Ekrad sanjak was mentioned. In addition, the dynasty’s claim of the sayyid, a religious privilege, was discussed.
In this study, firstly, the Estate of Mihrani, which was an administrative status, will be discussed and then, in the three different districts, and then, the Mihrani tribe, settled in different regions, will be analyzed especially by using some chronicles, travel books, secondary sources, and the Ottoman archival documents. What makes this work unique is that it has never been addressed with details before. Therefore, this research is the first original study written on the Mihranis.