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Job title

Divan Temyiz Baskani

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Divan Temyiz Baskani. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1872/73 (AH 1289). One monthly salary is recorded, 5,000 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Hudavendigar.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1289, 1 year with an entry
1872/73
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
5,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Divan Temyiz Baskani by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.

History

The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.

Sources

  1. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary, history.

Places

Places of Divan Temyiz Baskani, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
HudavendigarHüdavendigâr province111872/73

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Divan Temyiz Baskani
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hasan Edip Efendi1872/7315,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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