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Job title

Emlak Baskatip Muavini

Group of job titles: Land registry

1 official held the job title Emlak Baskatip Muavini. Its 6 annual entries run from 1875 to 1880 (AH 1292 to 1297). The median of the 6 recorded monthly salaries is 1,000 kuruş, against 571.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1292 to 1297, 6 years with an entry
1875 to 1880
Median monthly salaryfrom 6 recorded salaries
1,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes Emlak Baskatip Muavini by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the Land Registry (Defter-i Hakani) and of land (arazi), title deeds (tapu) and property (emlak).1 The Defter-i Hakani, one of the names of the Defterhane, kept the main registers setting down the kinds of land holding, the grants has, zeamet and timar, freehold (mülk) and endowments (vakıf), and did the daily work on these registers.2 Set up again in 1842, the registry became a ministry, the Defter-i Hakani Nezareti, in 1871.3

Notes

  1. Not stated in the sources read; inferred from the words of the titles.
  2. Afyoncu, Erhan (1994). Defterhâne. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 9, 100-104, paragraph beginning ‘Has, zeâmet, timar’. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
  3. Afyoncu (1994), ‘Defterhâne’, paragraph beginning ‘1836’da nişancılığın kaldırılmasından’.

Each statement above ends with the number of its note, which gives the work and the page or paragraph it comes from. A note that says "inferred" marks a statement that no source read states.

Places

Places of Emlak Baskatip Muavini, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province161875 to 1880

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Emlak Baskatip Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Halil Fahri Bey1875 to 18806800 to 1,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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