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Job title

Bidayet Mahkemesi Basmuddei Umumi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Bidayet Mahkemesi Basmuddei Umumi. Its 2 annual entries run from 1911 to 1912 (AH 1329 to 1330). The median of the 2 recorded monthly salaries is 4,000 kuruş, against 700 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Beyoğlu.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1329 to 1330, 2 years with an entry
1911 to 1912
Median monthly salaryfrom 2 recorded salaries
4,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Bidayet Mahkemesi Basmuddei Umumi 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 Basmuddei Umumi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
BeyoğluIstanbul (Dersaadet) province121911 to 1912

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Bidayet Mahkemesi Basmuddei Umumi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Cafer Bey1911 to 191224,000Bosna

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

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