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How many Jews gathered together in the dominions of the Sultans during the Golden Age? Exact figures lack, at least until the Ottomans themselves began to compile reasonably accurate census reports starting in the middle of the nineteenth century, but from early Ottoman cadastral records and poll tax registers along with the estimates of foreign visitors, approximations at least are possible.
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The provincial census figures have been derived from the Ottoman Cadastal Records, as cited in Mark Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities and their role in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Freiburg, K. Schwarz, 1980)
D. Grabrijan and J. Neidhardt, Architektura Bosne i put u suvremeno (The Architecture of Bosnia and the way to Modernity) (Sarajevo, 1957), p. 50.
Goldman, Zimra, 89–90, from the Responsa of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra, vol. III (Warsaw, 1882) III, no. 518, I, no. 378.
This discussion of Ottoman synagogue names is based on the work of Güleryüz, ‘Sinagoglarımızın Isimleri ve Anlamları’, Şalom (Istanbul), 9 January 1985;
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Shaw, S.J. (1991). The Golden Age of Ottoman Jewry. In: The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12235-6_2
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