Aksaray Sancaği’ndaki? Konar-Göçer Teşekküller (1500-1584)

Nomads were, no doubt, the most important one of the societies who constituted sandjak of Aksaray. Although they were given different tribal names at the beginning of the 16. century, there were efforts to combine them under the name of “yiizdeci-ler” in the second half of the century. In addition, although the population who led a nomadic life, was highly dense in the beginning, it is understtod that they adopted settled way of life and established villages in the third and fourth quarter of the century due to the settlement policy of the Ottoman state at that time.