Job title
Mufettis Kitabeti
Group of job titles: Inspection and control
2 officials held the job title Mufettis Kitabeti. Its 5 annual entries run from 1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1294). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 600 kuruş, against 535 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Bosna, with 1.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1291 to 1294, 4 years with an entry
- 1874 to 1878
- Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
- 600 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Inspection and control
No source read describes Mufettis Kitabeti 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosna | Bosnia (Bosna) province | 1 | 3 | 1875 to 1878 |
| Erzurum | Erzurum province | 1 | 2 | 1874 to 1876 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| İsmail Rahmi Efendi | 1875 to 1878 | 3 | 505 to 800 | Bitola (Manastır) |
| Mehmet Şevki Efendi | 1874 to 1876 | 2 | 400 to 600 | Gümüşhane |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Mufettis Kitabeti
- 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)