ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the types of notables in Tokat and discusses their involvement in Tanzimat-era reforms and institutions. It focuses on the social networks which are reproduced by linking dynastic notables first to one another, then to the town's potential non-dynastic notables, and finally to the Tanzimat-era district councils and bureaus. The combined legacy of social institutions from the Islamic middle periods, early Ottoman honorific titles, and the multiplex commercial relations of the nineteenth century helped to establish several categories of notable distinction, or henceforth, notability. The most widely recognized and prominent segment of Tokatli society were a small subset of dynastic notables. In network analysis, centrality in a social system can be demonstrated through several measures such as, Degree, Betweenness, closeness, eigenvector. Another socioeconomic factor might explain the disconnect between dynastic and potential non-dynastic notables. There were other markers of notability such as the holding of religious and military titles and work in the expanding field of liberal education.
