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Job title

Kontrol Kalemi Mumeyyizligi

Group of job titles: Inspection and control

1 official held the job title Kontrol Kalemi Mumeyyizligi. Its 3 annual entries run from 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321). The median of the 3 recorded monthly salaries is 1,500 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1319 to 1321, 3 years with an entry
1901 to 1904
Median monthly salaryfrom 3 recorded salaries
1,500 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Inspection and control

No source read describes Kontrol Kalemi Mumeyyizligi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Inspectors and their offices. In the post and telegraph service inspectors watched over the offices and lines of a region, tested lines and offices and kept a journal of their findings; the directors of the offices answered to them.

History

The regulation of November 1876 provided travelling inspectors to see that the post and telegraph worked regularly. The inspectorships were abolished in 1880 and restored less than a year later.

Sources

  1. Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 377. Used for: summary.
  2. Güneş, Mahir Melih (2026). Anadolu'da Telgrafın Toplumsal Tarihi (1856-1908). Doctoral thesis, Hacettepe University. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 115. Used for: summary.
  3. Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 49, 103-104. Used for: summary, history.

Places

Places of Kontrol Kalemi Mumeyyizligi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province131901 to 1904

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Kontrol Kalemi Mumeyyizligi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Pierre Hason Efendi1901 to 190431,500Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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