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Job title

Adliye Muhasebecisi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

2 officials held the job title Adliye Muhasebecisi. Its 11 annual entries run from 1880 to 1911 (AH 1298 to 1329). The median of the 11 recorded monthly salaries is 1,000 kuruş, against 475 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1298 to 1329, 11 years with an entry
1880 to 1911
Median monthly salaryfrom 11 recorded salaries
1,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Adliye Muhasebecisi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.

History

The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.

Sources

  1. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary, history.

Places

Places of Adliye Muhasebecisi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province2111880 to 1911

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Adliye Muhasebecisi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Emin Efendi1903 to 19119575 to 1,500Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Riza Efendi1880 to 188221,100Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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