Adet-i deştbani

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title: Adet-i deştbani
text: The adet-i deştbani was a charge, or tax, in the Ottoman Empire, which was a penalty for crop damage. The adet-i deştbani may have arisen as a result of tension between nomadic livestock-herders and settled farmers; the former's animals would encroach on, and damage, the latter's arable land; to discourage this, an official called a deştban was responsible for crop protection - they also guarded against crop theft. If a farmer's horses, cattle, sheep or goats escaped and damaged another person's
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description: Agricultural penalty charge in the Ottoman Empire
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