The Impacts of Wars on Fiscal Structure in the Ottoman State and Western European States in the XVIIth Century
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Fiscal history is closely related to the wars. The very issues of funding sufficient funds to fund the obgoing military conflicts currently and those in the past have perplexed the public finance specialists termly. There exist similarities in regard to the development of public finance institutions concerned with tax collection and domestic borrowing in relation to the financing of wars in the Ottoman Empire and the European context in the XVIIth century. In particular, France has been the most influential party with enormous impact on the Ottoman public finance institutions. Since the early XVIIth century, the Ottoman fiscal organization shaped by the requirements of government's in general, the military's and wars' financing, has lost its effectiveness. Therefore, XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries became ages when the Ottoman State faced vis a vis severe fiscal bottlenecks and crises. In light of the perspective given above, this study elucidates wars gone through in the XVIIth century in the Ottoman Empire and the European State and their impact on the countries' fiscal structures with a general approach.