 Each religious community, known as a "millet," had a representative in Istanbul and was allowed to organize its own affairs, including its people's education, social services and charities and even some of the legal standards by which they lived.The millet controlled all internal disputes such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and the distribution and collection of taxes.The residue of this community-specific system remained in modern Syria; for example, everyone knew you went to the Armenian quarter to get your silver.