Job title
Bahriye Mahkemsi Riyaseti
Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs
1 official held the job title Bahriye Mahkemsi Riyaseti. Its 13 annual entries run from 1877 to 1890 (AH 1294 to 1307). The median of the 13 recorded monthly salaries is 3,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Beyoğlu.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1294 to 1307, 13 years with an entry
- 1877 to 1890
- Median monthly salaryfrom 13 recorded salaries
- 3,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs
No source read describes Bahriye Mahkemsi Riyaseti 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
- 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.
- 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
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beyoğlu | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 13 | 1877 to 1890 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkiyadi Yorkiyadi Efendi | 1877 to 1890 | 13 | 3,000 to 4,750 | Volos (Golos) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Bahriye Mahkemsi Riyaseti
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)