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Job title

Asar Mufettisi

Group of job titles: Tax and treasury

4 officials held the job title Asar Mufettisi. Its 12 annual entries run from 1876 to 1896 (AH 1293 to 1313). The median of the 12 recorded monthly salaries is 4,000 kuruş, against 530 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 6 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Adana, with 1.

Officials
4
Years on recordAH 1293 to 1313, 9 years with an entry
1876 to 1896
Median monthly salaryfrom 12 recorded salaries
4,000 kuruş
Places with officials
6

Profile of the group: Tax and treasury

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

Officials of the Ministry of Finance (Maliye) and of the Public Debt Administration (Düyun-ı Umumiye). The Ministry of Finance took the place of the old chief treasurer (defterdar) in 1841; the Public Debt Administration was set up by the decree of 20 December 1881 to manage revenues assigned to the foreign creditors.

Sources

  1. Kütükoğlu, Mübahat S. (1994). Defterdar. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 9, 94-96. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 95. Used for: summary.
  2. Küçük, Cevdet and Ertüzün, Tevfik (1994). Düyûn-ı Umûmiyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 10, 58-62. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 59-61. Used for: summary.

Where the job was held

All years
6 places with officials on record, 6 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak
AdanaAnkaraBitlisBursaErzurumIoannina (Yanya)1 official

All 6 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Adana1
Ankara1
Bitlis1
Bursa1
Erzurum1
Ioannina (Yanya)1

Places

Places of Asar Mufettisi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
AdanaAdana province141876 to 1879
BursaHüdavendigâr province131893 to 1896
Ioannina (Yanya)Ioannina (Yanya) province121878 to 1880
AnkaraAnkara province111892/93
BitlisBitlis province111879/80
ErzurumErzurum province111878

Ottoman officials recorded

4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Asar Mufettisi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ali Riza Efendi1876 to 188053,000 to 7,500Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İbrahim Sarim Bey1892 to 189642,000 to 3,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Huseyin Sevki Efendi1878 to 188023,500 to 4,500Volos (Golos)
Omer Rahmi Efendi187815,000Yozgat

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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