Job title
Basmudur Muavini
Group of job titles: Management
3 officials held the job title Basmudur Muavini. Its 12 annual entries run from 1878 to 1904 (AH 1295 to 1321). The median of the 12 recorded monthly salaries is 1,575 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Konya, with 1.
- Officials
- 3
- Years on recordAH 1295 to 1321, 12 years with an entry
- 1878 to 1904
- Median monthly salaryfrom 12 recorded salaries
- 1,575 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 3
Profile of the group: Management
No source read describes Basmudur Muavini by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Directors of the offices and departments of the service. Under the regulation of November 1876 the administration of posts and telegraphs had a director general, a chief director (başmüdür) for each of its two departments, principal directors and inspectors in the provinces, directors (müdür) of the districts, and clerks in the smaller places, each answering to the one above.
Duties
- run an office of the service and direct its clerks
- in a telegraph office, keep the daily duty turns of the clerks, see that the apparatus is clean and working, and send a fault the office cannot repair to the mechanics (makineci) of the province or of Istanbul
- answer for the orderly and safe working of the office
Rank and pay
A schedule set by the centre paid telegraph directors of the first, second and third grade in the sancaks 1,200, 800 and 600 kuruş a month.
Sources
- Güneş, Mahir Melih (2026). Anadolu'da Telgrafın Toplumsal Tarihi (1856-1908). Doctoral thesis, Hacettepe University. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 115, 119. Used for: duties.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 49. Used for: summary.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Section II. Used for: rank and pay.
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Beirut (Beyrut) | 1 | |
| Edirne | 1 | |
| Konya | 1 |
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konya | Konya province | 1 | 7 | 1897 to 1904 |
| Beirut (Beyrut) | Beirut (Beyrut) province | 1 | 3 | 1894 to 1897 |
| Edirne | Edirne province | 1 | 2 | 1878 to 1879 |
Ottoman officials recorded
3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Şefik Efendi | 1897 to 1904 | 7 | 1,115 to 1,650 | Skopje (Üsküp) |
| Mahmut Fazlı Efendi | 1894 to 1897 | 3 | 1,350 to 1,500 | Ruse (Rusçuk) |
| Mehmet Rasim Efendi | 1878 to 1879 | 2 | 2,500 | Silivri |
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.
Subjects
- Basmudur Muavini
- 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)