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AI InsightThe efforts of the empire are among the investigation fields in this article
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Abstract
While the sugar, which was one of the new foods the New Age had known slowly, had been becoming more known and loved in the Ottoman Empire day by day. Though the Empire was a consumer country that was dependent on the foreign until the beginning of the 16th century, namely before Syria and Egypt conquest, after those dates it was the one of the states which had been producing sugar in their territories. So the productions in the country had not enough the increasing request that the European and American products also continued to be consumed. The place of the sugar, which became to start a subject in the national and the international trade in the 16th and in the 17th centuries, is the main investigation field of this study. The functions of the sugar production centers, the founders of them how they worked and the factors of the things, which had the roles in the changes of the prices are investigated in the study field. Both the adventure of the sugar from its cane state to returning a production that adorned to the tables and the delivering of it from the production places to the consumers had need to different grueling. The efforts of the empire are among the investigation fields in this article
Özet
Yeniçağın yavaş yavaş tanıdığı besinlerden olan şeker, bu çağ boyunca eski dünyada giderek daha fazla tanınır hale gelirken, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda da gün geçtikçe tanınıp sevilmiştir. İmparatorluk 16. yüzyılın başlarına kadar, yani Suriye ve Mısır fetihlerinden önce tümüyle dışa bağımlı bir tüketici ülke konumunda iken, bu tarihlerden sonra kendi sınırlarında şeker üreten devletlerden biri olmuştur. Ancak ülke içindeki üretim, giderek artan talebe karşılık veremediğinden Avrupa ve Amerika kaynaklı ürünler de tüketilmeye devam etmiştir