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Job title

Arazi Komisyon Riyaseti

Group of job titles: Land registry

1 official held the job title Arazi Komisyon Riyaseti. Its 9 annual entries run from 1890 to 1899 (AH 1308 to 1316). The median of the 9 recorded monthly salaries is 5,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1308 to 1316, 9 years with an entry
1890 to 1899
Median monthly salaryfrom 9 recorded salaries
5,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes Arazi Komisyon Riyaseti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices of the Land Registry (Defter-i Hakani), which kept the main registers of land holdings of every kind, fiefs (has, zeamet, timar), freehold (mülk) and endowments (vakıf), and did the daily work on them. The registry became a ministry, the Defter-i Hakani Nezareti, in 1871.

Sources

  1. Afyoncu, Erhan (1994). Defterhâne. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 9, 100-104. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 100, 104. Used for: summary.

Places

Places of Arazi Komisyon Riyaseti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province191890 to 1899

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Arazi Komisyon Riyaseti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Asaf Bey1890 to 189994,000 to 5,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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