 The tribal structure of communities like Hoti signified underdeveloped feudal relations of property ownership and also the existence of a close-circuit natural economy.In this framework, the resistance of these communities to pay taxes according to the new timar system forced the Ottomans to accept their settlement as communal entities outside the timar registers.Hoti was exempted from the timar system of land allocation in the early Ottoman Empire and no timar holders ("timarli sipahi") are found in nahiya of Hoti as communal property organization remained unaffected.