Derbendschi

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Derbendschi (from Persian دربند, DMG darband , 'bottleneck') were a privileged group of residents of the Ottoman Empire . Their task was to protect mountain passes against robbers and to assist travelers and merchants in emergency situations. In some places they also had to take care of the repair of bridges.

The Derbendschi villages were in the immediate vicinity of the passes they had to protect. They had tax privileges. In European Turkey, the Derbendschi were mostly long-established Christians, whose peoples had inhabited the respective area before the Ottoman conquest. There were Derbendji villages, for example, in the Pindus Mountains , the Rhodope Mountains and the Balkan Mountains .

literature

• Halil İnalcık (Ed.): An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire . Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-34315-1 , pp. 337 f .