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Ottoman taxes paid by a few Yorük tribes who winters in the surroundings of Birgi and its villages, belongs to the local court of Birgi, has been assigned to the endowment of the Mecca and Medina by Ottoman Sultans in the sixteenth century. For this reason, the name of taxes and their portion were written in Ottoman Turkish inside a register in the direction of Mehmed agha, a chief black eunuch of the Palace of Sultan Murad III., by Fazlullah bin abdüsselam who was local judge of Birgi in 1589. We know from the Ottoman documents that incomes in kind and in cash which relate to the endowment of Mecca and Medina were transported from Birgi to Izmir and then from Izmir to Istanbul. All incomes were transported to Mecca and Medina by the convoy of sürre which are gifts sent to Mecca and Medina by the ottoman Sultans annually. Now, we publish the register which was preserved at the archive of General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre in Ankara. It was transferred from the bureau of Istanbul to General Directorate of Ankara in the 1950's. Today, its is stored at the aforementioned archive in the classification of the Registers of New Endowments (Vakf-ı Cedid Defterleri) in the number of 166 (former numbers: 2237, 2183, 65). We give an abstract evaluation about this register as well as original text and in Latin translation. It contains new information about the history of Birgi, Bademiye and Ödemis of Aydın Province of Ottoman Empire at the end of the sixteenth century.