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DH 3. Kitabeti

Group of job titles: Land registry

2 officials held the job title DH 3. Kitabeti. Its 5 annual entries run from 1868 to 1881 (AH 1285 to 1298). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 83 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Prizren, with 1.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1285 to 1298, 5 years with an entry
1868 to 1881
Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
83 kuruş
Places with officials
2

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes DH 3. Kitabeti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices of the Land Registry (Defter-i Hakani), which kept the main registers of land holdings of every kind, fiefs (has, zeamet, timar), freehold (mülk) and endowments (vakıf), and did the daily work on them. The registry became a ministry, the Defter-i Hakani Nezareti, in 1871.

Sources

  1. Afyoncu, Erhan (1994). Defterhâne. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 9, 100-104. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 100, 104. Used for: summary.

Places

Places of DH 3. Kitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
PrizrenKosovo (Kosova) province141868 to 1872
SiirtBitlis province111880/81

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of DH 3. Kitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hafiz Veliyuttin Efendi1868 to 1872483Prizren
Ahmet Hilmi Efendi1880/811240Mosul (Musul)

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.

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