Etymology and methodology
The household, usually termed hane , was the base layer of society in the Ottoman Empire. Administratively, the term meant a fiscal unit until the nineteenth century, but after the first census was carried out in 1828–9, the term came to mean a census unit. Substantial research has been done since Ömer Lutfi Barkan discovered that the hane s recorded in taḥrīr (survey) registers in the fifteenth and s…