%0 Journal Article %T Standards of Wealth and Poverly of the Ottoman Subjectsas Reflected in the Legislative Acts and the Tax Registrations (XVTH¨CXVII th c.) %J Annual of the Faculty of History of ¡±St. Cyril and St. Methodius¡± University of Veliko Tarnovo %D 2017 %X This study aims to analyze the idea of wealth and poverty of the Ottoman subjects and slaves, which the State created by their legislative acts; to reveal the basic principles applied by the authorities to differentiate the social and the property groups in the field of taxation and the penal process; to outline the State standards and their respective numeric parameters, according to which the taxpayers and defendants were qualified in various property groups. The study is based on Ottoman legislative texts ¨C kanunnames and fetvas, on defters and treatises %K Ottoman subjects^ standards of wealth and poverty^ laws^ tax registrations. %U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/fhyb/eng/vol1/iss1/26