Job title
DH Kitabeti
Group of job titles: Land registry
Stored spellings: DH kitabeti
2 officials held the job title DH Kitabeti. Its 16 annual entries run from 1879 to 1898 (AH 1297 to 1315). The median of the 16 recorded monthly salaries is 300 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Tokat, with 1.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1297 to 1315, 15 years with an entry
- 1879 to 1898
- Median monthly salaryfrom 16 recorded salaries
- 300 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Land registry
No source read describes DH 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
- 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
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokat | Sivas province | 1 | 15 | 1879 to 1898 |
| Kırklareli | Edirne province | 1 | 1 | 1879/80 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Efendi | 1879 to 1898 | 15 | 300 | Tokat |
| Mehmet Zihni Efendi | 1879/80 | 1 | 360 | Niš (Niş) |
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
- DH Kitabeti
- 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)