Tahrir deftersof the 15-16th century, which provided statisticsdata to the Ottoman historians, were replaced by avârız deftersas a result of the abandonment of the tahrirsin the 17th century.Therefore, avârız defters became one of the most important sources of 17th century Ottoman social, economic and demographic history.While many Ottoman cities were examined with these sources, the defters of Diyarbekir were not found in the archives.Among defters and documents left unclassified in the OttomanArchives,twodeftersofAmid(Diyarbekir) foundrecently.Inthisstudy,the introduction and content analysis of two newly-found books belonging to1618 and 1652were made.With the data provided by the registers, the neighborhood, village and tribal structure of Amid between 1618-1652 was examined, and some aspects of Amid’s settlement and economic history in the first half of the 17th centurywere shedlight on.The pattern of Christians, Jews and Shamsi, who constitute non-Muslims and Muslim living in the city, to the settlements and taxs were revealed.Thus, the crises, the inancial difficultiesand the reflections of the transformations in the countryside faced by the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, were tried to be observed in Amid.