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Job title

Rusumat Nezareti Muavini

Group of job titles: Customs

1 official held the job title Rusumat Nezareti Muavini. Its 5 annual entries run from 1863 to 1872 (AH 1280 to 1288). The median of the 5 recorded monthly salaries is 1,200 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Samsun, with 1.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1280 to 1288, 5 years with an entry
1863 to 1872
Median monthly salaryfrom 5 recorded salaries
1,200 kuruş
Places with officials
3

Profile of the group: Customs

No source read describes Rusumat Nezareti Muavini by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the customs. From 1860 the customs were run by salaried officials instead of tax farmers, and from 1870 by the Customs Administration (Rüsumat Emaneti) in Istanbul with seventeen directorates in the provinces and inspectors to check the work.

History

A regulation of 1891 set the procedures of the customs: hours, loading and unloading, transit, inspection, ships' manifests and bonded stores.

Sources

  1. Kütükoğlu, Mübahat S. (1996). Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 14, 263-268. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 263-268. Used for: summary, history.

Where the job was held

All years
3 places with officials on record, 3 of them with a position on the map. A larger dot means more officials.
Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak
KonyaSamsunYozgat1 official

All 3 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Konya1
Samsun1
Yozgat1

Places

Places of Rusumat Nezareti Muavini, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
SamsunTrabzon province131863 to 1866
KonyaKonya province111867/68
YozgatAnkara province111871/72

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Rusumat Nezareti Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Omer Rahmi Efendi1863 to 187251,200 to 1,660Yozgat

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

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