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DH Tahrirat Kalemi

Group of job titles: Land registry

1 official held the job title DH Tahrirat Kalemi. Its 3 annual entries run from 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294). The median of the 3 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, against 560 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1292 to 1294, 3 years with an entry
1875 to 1878
Median monthly salaryfrom 3 recorded salaries
800 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes DH Tahrirat Kalemi 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 Tahrirat Kalemi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province131875 to 1878

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of DH Tahrirat Kalemi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Semsettin Efendi1875 to 18783800Istanbul (Dersaadet)

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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