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Job title

Emlak Memuru

Group of job titles: Land registry

Stored spellings: Emlak memuru

7 officials held the job title Emlak Memuru. Its 26 annual entries run from 1845 to 1906 (AH 1261 to 1323). The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 350 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 1.2 times the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 46 per cent of the other officials with a salary in the same year. Half of the officials have an entry in it in no more than 2 different years, and a quarter in 6 or more. It was the first title on record for 43 per cent of the officials and the last for 57 per cent. The entries name 7 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Kibris, with 1.

Officials
7
Years on recordAH 1261 to 1323, 26 years with an entry
1845 to 1906
Median monthly salary1.17× the collection median of the same years (500 kuruş)
350 kuruş
Places with officials
7
First job title on recordfor 3 of the 7 officials
43%

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes Emlak Memuru 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.
All years

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 350 kuruş, the mean 420 kuruş.
02004006008001848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320500 kuruş in 1905/06Emlak Memuru, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Emlak Memuru
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
18451350350350350350
1845/461350350350350300
1846/471350350350350300
1847/481350350350350250
1848/491350350350350300
1849/501350350350350250
1850/511350350350350175
1851/521350350350350282.5
1852/531350350350350350
1859/601250250250250500
1860/611250250250250500
1861/621250250250250600
1862/631250250250250500
1863/641250250250250500
1864/651250250250250625
1866/671700700700700600
1879/801300300300300500
1880/811100100100100500
1881/821100100100100500
1887/881760760760760500
1888/891760760760760500
1889/901760760760760500
1890/911760760760760500
1891/921760760760760500
1892/931760760760760500
1905/061500500500500475

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.

Pay against the whole collection

Officials by their median monthly salary in this job
Officials of this jobWhole collection
14%14%29%29%14%01002003004005007501,0001,5002,500

7 officials with a salary, each counted once in the band of the median of the official's salaries in this job. A bar runs from its number to the next; the last is 2,500 kuruş and more. Most officials (29%) are in the band 300 to 400 kuruş.

The same numbers as a table
Officials of Emlak Memuru by median monthly salary
Median monthly salary, kuruşOfficialsShareWhole collection
0 to 10000%3%
100 to 200114%10%
200 to 300114%17%
300 to 400229%18%
400 to 50000%17%
500 to 750229%23%
750 to 1,000114%5%
1,000 to 1,50000%4%
1,500 to 2,50000%2%
2,500 and more00%1%

The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 350 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 500 kuruş. The median entry paid 1.17× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 0.5× and 1.49×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 46% of the other paid officials of the same year.

Times the collection median1.17×0.25×0.5×1×2×4×Share of paid officials earning less46%0%25%50%75%100%

The dot is the median, the box the middle half of the entries. Dashed lines: the collection median of the same years (1×) and the middle of the paid officials (50%).

Where the job was held

All years
7 places with officials on record, 7 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak District (kaza) Other place
Aleppo (Halep)Izmir (İzmir)İzmitKibrisLusnaPreveza (Preveze)Rumeli1 official

All 7 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Aleppo (Halep)1
Izmir (İzmir)1
İzmit1
Kibris1
Lusna1
Preveza (Preveze)1
Rumeli1

Career paths: the titles just before and after

The number is the officials who made the move. Under it, the median change of the monthly salary: the first salary of the later title less the last salary of the earlier one, where at least 5 moves have both.

Held just before

The title of the entries just before a run of Emlak Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from that title to Emlak Memuru. The 3 titles with most officials, of 4 moves in all.

  1. Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)2
  2. Defter-i Hakani KalemiLand Registry office1
  3. Muhasebe Kalemiaccounts office1

Held just after

The title of the entries just after a run of Emlak Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from Emlak Memuru to that title. The 3 titles with most officials, of 3 moves in all.

  1. Basmuharriri1
  2. DH 2. Kitabeti1
  3. Gumruk Kitabeti1

Of the 7 moves shown, 1 cross at least one year without an annual entry; nothing is known about those years. Two posts held in the same years are not counted as a move.

Time in the job

Years with an entry in the job
2 yearsmedian over 7 officials
A quarter of the officials
6 years or moreupper quartile
Most years of one official
9 years
  1. First job title on recordthe first year with an entry with a job title has it43%3 officials
  2. Last job title on recordthe last such year has it57%4 officials
  3. No other job titlein the whole record0%0 officials
  4. One place in the jobof 7 officials with a place recorded100%7 officials

Years are years with an annual entry in the job, each counted once for an official. They need not follow one another, and nothing is known about a year without an entry. With two posts in the first or last year, both count.

Who held the job

Officials of this jobWhole collection

Community

7 officials with it recorded.

  1. Muslim (Müslüman)100%7

Age at the first annual entry in the job

7 officials with it recorded.

  1. under 150%0
  2. 15 to 1943%3
  3. 20 to 2429%2
  4. 25 to 290%0
  5. 30 to 340%0
  6. 35 to 3914%1
  7. 40 and over14%1

Province of birth

7 officials with it recorded.

  1. Archipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid) province14%1
  2. Aydın province14%1
  3. Bitola (Manastır) province14%1
  4. Ioannina (Yanya) province14%1
  5. Istanbul (Dersaadet) province14%1
  6. Konya province14%1
  7. Thessaloniki (Selanik) province14%1

Schooling

7 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%. The groups of the schools recorded for each official.

  1. Primary29%2
  2. Rüşdiye29%2
  3. Community school14%1
  4. İdadi14%1
  5. Religious school (medrese)14%1

Languages

7 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

  1. Turkish100%7
  2. Greek (Rum)29%2
  3. Albanian14%1
  4. Arabic14%1

Qualification

7 officials with it recorded. A diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan) recorded in the schooling or the work.

  1. No86%6
  2. Yes14%1

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1845 (AH 1261) with 1 official. Years with an annual entry: 26.
011848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201 in 1845Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Emlak Memuru
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1845 (AH 1261)111
1845/46 (AH 1262)101
1846/47 (AH 1263)101
1847/48 (AH 1264)101
1848/49 (AH 1265)101
1849/50 (AH 1266)101
1850/51 (AH 1267)101
1851/52 (AH 1268)101
1852/53 (AH 1269)101
1859/60 (AH 1276)111
1860/61 (AH 1277)101
1861/62 (AH 1278)101
1862/63 (AH 1279)101
1863/64 (AH 1280)101
1864/65 (AH 1281)101
1866/67 (AH 1283)111
1879/80 (AH 1297)111
1880/81 (AH 1298)111
1881/82 (AH 1299)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)111
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)101
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)111

An official is counted once in a year. First recorded is the first year in which the collection has an annual entry of the official on this page. It is not a hiring date.

Places

Places of Emlak Memuru, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
KibrisArchipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid) province191845 to 1853
Aleppo (Halep)Aleppo (Halep) province161887 to 1893
Izmir (İzmir)Aydın province161859 to 1865
İzmitİzmit province121880 to 1882
LusnaIoannina (Yanya) province111905/06
Preveza (Preveze)Ioannina (Yanya) province111879/80
Rumeli111866/67

Ottoman officials recorded

7 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Emlak Memuru
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Cafer Sadik Efendi1845 to 18539350Nicosia (Lefkoşa)
Ali Riza Efendi1887 to 18936760Burdur
Osman Nuri Efendi1859 to 18656250Izmir (İzmir)
Halil Veliyuddîn Efendi1880 to 18822100Istanbul (Dersaadet)
AHMET ELMAS EFENDi1905/061500Ioannina (Yanya)
Ali Rıza Efendi1866/671700Bitola (Manastır)
Mehmet Kani Efendi1879/801300Drama

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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