1834 VE 1840/41 TARİHLİ NÜFUS DEFTERLERİNE GÖRE KARASINIR VE ELMASUN (GÜNEYSINIR).

Karasinir and Elmasun, which are the central neighborhoods of southborder district of Konya province at the present time,were the villages connectod to Belviran township of Konya province during the Ottoman period. 1834 and 1840/41 dated register books belonging to Belviran township which is the administrative unit of these two settlements are registered in no 3373 and 3374 respectively,in BOA, NFS.d catalogs at Department of Ottoman Archives of General Directorate of State Archives of Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry. 3373 numbered book concerning the year 1834 is enumerated according to the procedure of page , and consists of 67 pages in total. According to the information given in the information form of the book, the starting date of the book is 27 February 1834. 3374 numbered book concerning the year 1840/41 is enumerated according to the procedure of folio , and consists of 224 pages in total. The registers at both books are kept on the basis of household . Household head was based on on the registration of population data. First, household head was recorded, and then the male population living in that household were recorded. There is no record of women population in the books. The register books, the subject to our study, contain the names, father names, nicknames, ages and appearance data of the male population living in Karasinir and Elmasun. Accordingly, in our study, the demographic structures, social and cultural characteristics of Karasinir and Elmasun villages in the second quarter of the IX th century will be discussed by evaluating the data in the population books of the year 1834 and 1840/41. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]