Petition from Saida (Sidon)
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Ayalon (2014:94) reports that after the earthquakes, a petition dated 15 Rabi‘ al-Thani 1173 (5 December 1759) was sent from Saida (Sidon)to Istanbul, asking for tax reductions for that year and the next. The petition was approved six weeks later (BOA, C. DH., 11626).
- from Ayalon (2014:94)
Figure 4.2. A petition sent from Sayda (also Sidon, in present-day Lebanon) to Istanbul requesting relief after the earthquakes of 1759–60. The text of the petition appears at the top; the rest includes the petitioners’ original signatures and seals. Source: BOA, C. DH. 11626. Courtesy of the Prime Minister’s Office Archives, Istanbul. from Ayalon (2014)Online Versions and Further Reading
