Abstract The present article is a study of provincial administration in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan. It examines the transformation of provincial administration in Dibra and Hazro after two towns’ hereditary rulers were exiled. Focusing on the employment patterns of the notables in exile as well as the ones who occupied the posts in the absence of the former, this study challenges the binary framework mostly employed in conceptualizing the making of the modern Ottoman state. Particularly, the employment of the notables exiled to the distant parts of the empire necessitates a revision in the presumptions about the origins of appointed Ottoman officials. By focusing on the partnership operating by means of employment, this study argues that the making of Ottoman state follows a trajectory of flexible centralization based on the partnership between the government and notables, terms of which were constantly negotiated.

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重新考虑地方与中央：帝国、显贵和奥斯曼帝国阿尔巴尼亚和库尔德斯坦的就业，1835-1878

摘要 本文是对 19 世纪奥斯曼帝国阿尔巴尼亚和库尔德斯坦省级行政管理的研究。它考察了两个城镇的世袭统治者被流放后，Dibra 和 Hazro 省级行政机构的转变。本研究着眼于流亡名人的就业模式以及在前者缺席的情况下担任职务的人，挑战了主要用于概念化现代奥斯曼帝国国家的二元框架。特别是，被流放到帝国遥远地区的显贵的就业需要修改关于被任命的奥斯曼帝国官员的起源的推定。通过专注于以雇佣方式运作的伙伴关系，