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59.ese income registers ( Th temettuat defterleri) amount to several thousand
volumes. Our information about these registers is very limited. For a brief
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60.ese health reports are located in the Ottoman archives in the catalogue Th
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62.n adaptation of Michael Tsin, A Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China:
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65.ee Baker, S Inventing the French Revolution, 169–170, for this new language
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