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Job title

Mahkeme Katibi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Mahkeme Katibi. Its 2 annual entries run from 1869 to 1871 (AH 1286 to 1287). The median of the 2 recorded monthly salaries is 180 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Samsun.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1286 to 1287, 2 years with an entry
1869 to 1871
Median monthly salaryfrom 2 recorded salaries
180 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Mahkeme Katibi 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 Mahkeme Katibi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
SamsunTrabzon province121869 to 1871

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mahkeme Katibi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Osman Hulusi Efendi1869 to 18712180Trabzon

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

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