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Job title

Baskitabet Zabit Katibi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Baskitabet Zabit Katibi. Its 6 annual entries run from 1876 to 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298). The median of the 6 recorded monthly salaries is 1,200 kuruş, against 571.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1293 to 1298, 6 years with an entry
1876 to 1881
Median monthly salaryfrom 6 recorded salaries
1,200 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Baskitabet Zabit Katibi 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 Baskitabet Zabit Katibi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province161876 to 1881

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Baskitabet Zabit Katibi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Emrullah Efendi1876 to 188161,060 to 1,200Biga

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

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