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editDefter (from Persian دفتر: daftar meaning book, registry, and in modern time office or bureau) was a cadastral tax census carried out by the Ottoman Empire.
The defters collected information about villages, dwellings, household heads (adult males and widows), and ethnicities.--Speidelj (talk) 06:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)