Job title
Mekatib Basmemuru
Group of job titles: Postal service and dispatch
1 official held the job title Mekatib Basmemuru. Its 5 annual entries run from 1890 to 1895 (AH 1308 to 1312). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 850 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Izmir (İzmir).
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1308 to 1312, 5 years with an entry
- 1890 to 1895
- Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
- 850 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Postal service and dispatch
No source read describes Mekatib Basmemuru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
The public post of the Ottoman state, founded with the Ministry of Post in 1840 and joined with the telegraph in 1871. Post offices took in, carried and delivered letters, printed matter, registered letters and valuables.
Tools and technology
- the old overland roads, steamers of the state and of foreign companies, and later the railways
- postage stamps from 1862
History
Before 1840 official messages were carried by couriers between relay stations (menzil) kept by local contracted postmasters (menzilci); the relay system ended when the post was organised in 1839 and 1840. The empire joined the Universal Postal Union in 1874. The postal guides list 1,033 post and telegraph offices in 1884 and 1,288 in 1892.
Sources
- Halaçoğlu, Yusuf (2004). Menzil (Osmanlı). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 29, 159-161. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 159-161. Used for: history.
- Koh, Choon Hwee (2021). The Ottoman postmaster: contractors, communication and early modern state formation. Past and Present 251, 113-152. Online copy.Pages or part: 113, 118-120. Used for: history.
- 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: iii, 20-25, 66, 77. Used for: summary, tools and technology, history.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Section II. Used for: summary.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izmir (İzmir) | Aydın province | 1 | 5 | 1890 to 1895 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed official (50_15; 27) | 1890 to 1895 | 5 | 850 | Plovdiv (Filibe) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Mekatib Basmemuru
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)