Job title
DH Mufettisi
Group of job titles: Land registry
4 officials held the job title DH Mufettisi. Its 25 annual entries run from 1876 to 1908 (AH 1293 to 1325). The median of the 25 recorded monthly salaries is 3,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 8 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Ankara, with 1.
- Officials
- 4
- Years on recordAH 1293 to 1325, 22 years with an entry
- 1876 to 1908
- Median monthly salaryfrom 25 recorded salaries
- 3,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 8
Profile of the group: Land registry
No source read describes DH Mufettisi 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.
Monthly salary each year
The same numbers as a table
| Year | Recorded salaries | Median | Mean | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Median of the whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876/77 | 1 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 575 |
| 1877/78 | 1 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 560 |
| 1878 | 1 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 600 |
| 1878/79 | 1 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 | 600 |
| 1879/80 | 1 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 500 |
| 1880/81 | 1 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 500 |
| 1881/82 | 2 | 1,900 | 1,900 | 1,450 | 2,350 | 500 |
| 1882/83 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1883/84 | 2 | 1,900 | 1,900 | 1,450 | 2,350 | 500 |
| 1884/85 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1885/86 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1886/87 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1889/90 | 1 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 500 |
| 1890/91 | 1 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 500 |
| 1891/92 | 1 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 500 |
| 1901/02 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 500 |
| 1902/03 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 500 |
| 1903/04 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 475 |
| 1904/05 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 450 |
| 1905/06 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 475 |
| 1906/07 | 2 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 450 |
| 1907/08 | 1 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 3,600 | 300 |
Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.
Where the job was held
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankara | Ankara province | 1 | 6 | 1881 to 1887 |
| Suriye | Syria (Suriye) province | 1 | 6 | 1878 to 1884 |
| Elazığ | Mamuretülaziz province | 1 | 4 | 1901 to 1905 |
| Jaffa (Yafa) | Jerusalem (Kudüs) province | 1 | 3 | 1889 to 1892 |
| Kibris | Archipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid) province | 1 | 2 | 1876 to 1878 |
| Sivas | Sivas province | 1 | 2 | 1906 to 1908 |
| Bitlis | Bitlis province | 1 | 1 | 1906/07 |
| Erzurum | Erzurum province | 1 | 1 | 1905/06 |
Ottoman officials recorded
4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osman Vafi Efendi | 1876 to 1884 | 8 | 2,800 to 3,500 | Erzurum |
| Ahmet Refik Efendi | 1901 to 1907 | 6 | 3,600 | Ioannina (Yanya) |
| Muhyiddin Bey | 1881 to 1887 | 6 | 1,000 | Damascus (Şam) |
| Abdurrahman Zekai Bey | 1889 to 1908 | 5 | 3,000 to 3,600 | Istanbul (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.
Subjects
- DH Mufettisi
- 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)