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Job title

DH Mukayyit

Group of job titles: Land registry

2 officials held the job title DH Mukayyit. Its 13 annual entries run from 1867 to 1878 (AH 1284 to 1295). The median of the 13 recorded monthly salaries is 850 kuruş, against 582.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Baghdad (Bağdat), with 1.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1284 to 1295, 12 years with an entry
1867 to 1878
Median monthly salaryfrom 13 recorded salaries
850 kuruş
Places with officials
2

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes DH Mukayyit 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 Mukayyit, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Baghdad (Bağdat)Baghdad (Bağdat) province1101869 to 1878
Kemaliye (Eğin)Mamuretülaziz province131867 to 1870

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of DH Mukayyit
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Abdurrezzak Efendi1869 to 187810500 to 950Baghdad (Bağdat)
Omer Vasfi Efendi1867 to 1870350Kemaliye (Eğin)

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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