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thumb|235px|Ali Pasha of Ioannina, one of the more powerful Chiflik rulers|alt=Sketch of [[Ali Pasha of Ioannina smoking a water pipe ]]

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  • Background
  • Adoption
  • Result
  • The town of Al-Jiftlik
  • See also
  • References
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thumb|235px|Ali Pasha of Ioannina, one of the more powerful Chiflik rulers|alt=Sketch of [[Ali Pasha of Ioannina smoking a water pipe ]]

The chiflik or chiftlik (; ; , chiflik; , čiflig; , tsiflíki; /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. 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 16th century until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919. The chiflik owners were known as chiftlik-sahibi.

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