ABSTRACT
This chapter publishes text and translation of two firmans of Muatafa II, dated 1108, taken from copies in the cadi registers of Thessaloniki, regulating the reform of the Ottoman state courier and post-station network with regard to the Rumelian sol kol. Ornaments of the cadis and judges; mines of virtue and eloquence: the cadis along the road from Edirne to Istife – may their virtues be increased! – and ornaments of the most eminent and their peers, commandants of the provincial cavalry and Janissary commanders and agents of the provincial notables and post-station keepers – may their power be increased. However, as the post-horses of old ceased to be sufficient with the increase in post-stations as a result of the prolongation of the war, some were provided for from the Treasury, and some by transfer of local revenues and by grants-in-aid from kazas in the vicinity.
