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Job title

Meclis-i Ticaret Zabit Kitabeti

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Meclis-i Ticaret Zabit Kitabeti. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1872/73 (AH 1289). One monthly salary is recorded, 605 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1289, 1 year with an entry
1872/73
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
605 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Meclis-i Ticaret Zabit Kitabeti 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 Meclis-i Ticaret Zabit Kitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province111872/73

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Meclis-i Ticaret Zabit Kitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Rasim Bey1872/731605Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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