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Job title

Mahkeme Tercumani

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Mahkeme Tercumani. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1875/76 (AH 1292). One monthly salary is recorded, 100 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Thessaloniki (Selanik).

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1292, 1 year with an entry
1875/76
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
100 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Mahkeme Tercumani 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 Tercumani, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Thessaloniki (Selanik)Thessaloniki (Selanik) province111875/76

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mahkeme Tercumani
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Yusuf Mişon Efendi1875/761100Serres (Siroz)

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

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