Ministry of Finance (Ottoman Empire)

Ministry of Finance
Ottoman Turkish: ماليه نظارتی
Maliye Nezâreti
Agency overview
Formed1838
Superseding agency
JurisdictionOttoman Empire
HeadquartersConstantinople

The Ministry of Finance (Ottoman Turkish: ماليه نظارتی; Turkish: Maliye Nezâreti) was a ministry of the Ottoman Empire. It became the late 19th century incarnation of the Defterdar (Grand Treasurer).[1]

History

An aborted attempt to establish a Ministry of Finance came about in early 1838 under Sultan Mahmud II, but it was dissolved the next year during Hüsrev Pasha's brief period of dominance following the accession of Abdul Mecid to the throne grant, as he was hoping to grant the army financial independence. The Ministry of Finance was restored on 20 June 1839 soon after Mustafa Reşid Pasha's Gülhane proclamation, which combined the military and imperial treasuries.[2]

Organization

Successor

The modern finance ministry for Turkey is the Ministry of Finance (Turkey).

See also

References

  1. ^ Young, George (1906). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 5. Clarendon Press. p. 14.
  2. ^ Shaw & Shaw 1977, p. 73.

Sources

  • Shaw, Stanford; Shaw, Ezel (1977). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29166-6.


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