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Job title

Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

Stored spellings: istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi

7 officials held the job title Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi. Its 26 annual entries run from 1885 to 1910 (AH 1303 to 1327). The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 3,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 6 times the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 98 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 3 different years, and a quarter in 5 or more. It was the first title on record for 0 per cent of the officials and the last for 43 per cent. The entries name 10 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Van, with 2.

Officials
7
Years on recordAH 1303 to 1327, 16 years with an entry
1885 to 1910
Median monthly salary6× the collection median of the same years (500 kuruş)
3,000 kuruş
Places with officials
10
First job title on recordfor 0 of the 7 officials
0%

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi 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.
All years

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 3,000 kuruş, the mean 2,990 kuruş.
01,0002,0003,0004,0001886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 13263,500 kuruş in 1909/10Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1885/8613,0003,0003,0003,000500
1886/8713,0003,0003,0003,000500
1887/8833,0003,0003,0003,000500
1888/8923,0003,0003,0003,000500
1889/9033,0003,0003,0003,000500
1890/9123,0003,0003,0003,000500
1891/9233,0003,0003,0003,000500
1892/9323,0003,0003,0003,000500
1893/9423,0003,0003,0003,000500
1894/9513,0003,0003,0003,000500
1895/9613,0003,0003,0003,000500
1896/9712,7002,7002,7002,700500
1897/9812,7002,7002,7002,700500
1898/9913,1503,1503,1503,150500
1906/0712,7002,7002,7002,700450
1909/1013,5003,5003,5003,500462.5

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
100%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 (100%) are in the band 2,500 kuruş and more.

The same numbers as a table
Officials of Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi by median monthly salary
Median monthly salary, kuruşOfficialsShareWhole collection
0 to 10000%3%
100 to 20000%10%
200 to 30000%17%
300 to 40000%18%
400 to 50000%17%
500 to 75000%23%
750 to 1,00000%5%
1,000 to 1,50000%4%
1,500 to 2,50000%2%
2,500 and more7100%1%

The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 3,000 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 500 kuruş. The median entry paid 6× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 6× and 6×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 98% of the other paid officials of the same year.

Times the collection median6×0.25×0.5×1×2×4×8×Share of paid officials earning less98%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
10 places with officials on record, 10 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Office or region
KastamonuThessaloniki (Selanik)VanAdanaAnkaraElazığHudavendigarKonya2 officials1 official

All 10 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Kastamonu2
Thessaloniki (Selanik)2
Van2
Adana1
Ankara1
Elazığ1
Hudavendigar1
Konya1
Sivas1
Suriye1

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 Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi. Pay: the change on moving from that title to Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi. The 5 titles with most officials, of 7 moves in all.

  1. 2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Riyaseti3
  2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Riyaseti1
  3. Bidayet Mahkemesi Muaviniassistant at a court of first instance1
  4. Ceza Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi1
  5. Istinaf Mahkemesi Muavini1

Held just after

The title of the entries just after a run of Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi. Pay: the change on moving from Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi to that title. The 3 titles with most officials, of 4 moves in all.

  1. Istinaf Mahkemesi Riyaseti2
  2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi1
  3. Mutasarrif1

Of the 11 moves shown, 0 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
3 yearsmedian over 7 officials
A quarter of the officials
5 years or moreupper quartile
Most years of one official
8 years
  1. First job title on recordthe first year with an entry with a job title has it0%0 officials
  2. Last job title on recordthe last such year has it43%3 officials
  3. No other job titlein the whole record0%0 officials
  4. One place in the jobof 7 officials with a place recorded57%4 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 190%0
  3. 20 to 240%0
  4. 25 to 290%0
  5. 30 to 340%0
  6. 35 to 3914%1
  7. 40 and over86%6

Province of birth

7 officials with it recorded.

  1. Aydın province14%1
  2. Baghdad (Bağdat) province14%1
  3. Bosnia (Bosna) province14%1
  4. Hüdavendigâr province14%1
  5. Istanbul (Dersaadet) province14%1
  6. Konya province14%1
  7. Shkodër (İşkodra) province14%1

Schooling

6 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. Higher or professional33%2
  2. Rüşdiye33%2
  3. İdadi17%1
  4. Primary17%1

Languages

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

  1. Turkish100%6
  2. Arabic33%2
  3. Albanian17%1
  4. Bulgarian17%1
  5. Persian17%1

Qualification

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

  1. No80%4
  2. Yes20%1

Source of the record

7 officials with it recorded.

  1. Post and Telegraph71%5
  2. Cross-ministry workbook29%2

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1887/88 (AH 1305) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 16.
01231886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 13263 in 1887/88Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1885/86 (AH 1303)111
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)323
1888/89 (AH 1306)202
1889/90 (AH 1307)313
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)313
1892/93 (AH 1310)202
1893/94 (AH 1311)202
1894/95 (AH 1312)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1906/07 (AH 1324)111
1909/10 (AH 1327)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 Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
VanVan province261885 to 1892
KastamonuKastamonu province231893 to 1896
Thessaloniki (Selanik)Thessaloniki (Selanik) province231888 to 1910
SivasSivas province141887 to 1891
AnkaraAnkara province131896 to 1899
ElazığMamuretülaziz province131891 to 1894
AdanaAdana province111887/88
HudavendigarHüdavendigâr province111892/93
KonyaKonya province111891/92
SuriyeSyria (Suriye) province111906/07

Ottoman officials recorded

7 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Osman Nuri Bey1891 to 189982,700 to 3,150Kütahya
Abdullah Nafiz Bey1885 to 189463,000Alanya (Alaiye)
Hafiz Hasan Efendi1887 to 189143,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Vasfi Efendi1889 to 189233,000Izmir (İzmir)
Tayyib Hilmi Efendi1887 to 189033,000Shkodër (İşkodra)
Cafer Bey1909/1013,500Bosna
Musa Kazim Efendi1906/0712,700Baghdad (Bağdat)

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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