Inebolu

İnebolu was a Black Sea port in the country governed by the Candaroğulları before it became part of the Ottoman realm. Its history included overlapping commercial, religious and administrative interests in the land surrounding the port.

A survey of 1487 records an agricultural holding called Ahi Mihal in İnebolu. Non-Muslim occupants had held the land on a fixed payment and endowed it to a church. Before that survey, the local subaşı, Yakup Bey, had purchased the holding for 3,000 akçe and registered it in his own name. This small transaction gives a specific glimpse of the early Ottoman town: land associated with an Ahi name, Christian religious endowment and the property interests of a local officer all appeared in the same record.