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Job title

Bidayet Mahkemesi Azasi Muavini

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Bidayet Mahkemesi Azasi Muavini. Its 5 annual entries run from 1886 to 1891 (AH 1304 to 1308). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1304 to 1308, 5 years with an entry
1886 to 1891
Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
800 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Bidayet Mahkemesi Azasi Muavini 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 Bidayet Mahkemesi Azasi Muavini, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province151886 to 1891

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Bidayet Mahkemesi Azasi Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ali Riza Bey1886 to 18915800Anamur

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

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