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DH Mudur Muavini

Group of job titles: Land registry

3 officials held the job title DH Mudur Muavini. Its 14 annual entries run from 1865 to 1884 (AH 1282 to 1301). The median of the 14 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Baghdad (Bağdat), with 1.

Officials
3
Years on recordAH 1282 to 1301, 12 years with an entry
1865 to 1884
Median monthly salaryfrom 14 recorded salaries
2,000 kuruş
Places with officials
3

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes DH Mudur Muavini 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.

Where the job was held

All years
3 places with officials on record, 3 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Office or region
Baghdad (Bağdat)EdirneSuriye1 official

All 3 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Baghdad (Bağdat)1
Edirne1
Suriye1

Places

Places of DH Mudur Muavini, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Baghdad (Bağdat)Baghdad (Bağdat) province161878 to 1884
EdirneEdirne province151865 to 1870
SuriyeSyria (Suriye) province131868 to 1871

Ottoman officials recorded

3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of DH Mudur Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Abdurrezzak Efendi1878 to 188461,200 to 1,500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ragib Efendi1865 to 187052,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Haci Mehmet Sezayi Bey1868 to 187132,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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