page_title: Chiflik
hierarchical_section_title: Chiflik
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of Ali Pacha on the frontispice of the book Français&#160;: Dessin d'Ali Pacha sur le frontispice du livre
context_page_description: Chiflik, or chiftlik, is a Turkish term for a system of land management in the Ottoman Empire. Before the chiflik system the Empire used a non-hereditary form of land management called the Timar System. Starting as the Empire began to collapse, powerful military officers started to claim land from the Sultan's holding allowing them to pass the land onto their sons thus creating the Chiflik system. This form of land management lasted from the sixteenth century to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919.
context_section_description: Chiflik, or chiftlik (Ottoman Turkish: Çiftlik; Albanian: çiflig; Bulgarian: чифлик, chiflik; Macedonian: чифлиг, čiflig; Greek: τσιφλίκι; Serbian: читлук/čitluk), is a Turkish term for a system of land management in the Ottoman Empire.  Before the chiflik system the Empire used a non-hereditary form of land management called the Timar System.  Starting as the Empire began to collapse, powerful military officers started to claim land from the Sultan's holding allowing them to pass the land onto their sons thus creating the Chiflik system.  This form of land management lasted from the sixteenth century to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919.
caption: Ali Pasha of Ioannina, one of the more powerful Chiflik rulers
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