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Job title

Mufettis Muavin Vekili

Group of job titles: Inspection and control

1 official held the job title Mufettis Muavin Vekili. Its 2 annual entries run from 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321). The median of the 2 recorded monthly salaries is 950 kuruş, against 487.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Kastamonu.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1320 to 1321, 2 years with an entry
1902 to 1904
Median monthly salaryfrom 2 recorded salaries
950 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Inspection and control

No source read describes Mufettis Muavin Vekili 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

Places of Mufettis Muavin Vekili, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
KastamonuKastamonu province121902 to 1904

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mufettis Muavin Vekili
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hafız Ahmet Efendi1902 to 19042950Bosna

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

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