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Job title

Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti

Group of job titles: Land registry

1 official held the job title Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti. Its 23 annual entries run from 1879 to 1906 (AH 1297 to 1323). The median of the 23 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1297 to 1323, 23 years with an entry
1879 to 1906
Median monthly salaryfrom 23 recorded salaries
2,000 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Land registry

No source read describes Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices of the Land Registry (Defter-i Hakani), which kept the main registers of land holdings of every kind, fiefs (has, zeamet, timar), freehold (mülk) and endowments (vakıf), and did the daily work on them. The registry became a ministry, the Defter-i Hakani Nezareti, in 1871.

Sources

  1. Afyoncu, Erhan (1994). Defterhâne. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 9, 100-104. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 100, 104. Used for: summary.
All years

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 23 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, the mean 1,937 kuruş.
05001,0001,5002,0001880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13222,000 kuruş in 1905/06Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1879/8011,6501,6501,6501,650500
1880/8111,6501,6501,6501,650500
1882/8311,6501,6501,6501,650500
1883/8412,0002,0002,0002,000500
1884/8512,0002,0002,0002,000500
1885/8612,0002,0002,0002,000500
1886/8712,0002,0002,0002,000500
1887/8812,0002,0002,0002,000500
1888/8912,0002,0002,0002,000500
1892/9312,0002,0002,0002,000500
1893/9412,0002,0002,0002,000500
1894/9512,0002,0002,0002,000500
1895/9612,0002,0002,0002,000500
1896/9711,8001,8001,8001,800500
1897/9811,8001,8001,8001,800500
1898/9912,0002,0002,0002,000500
1899/190012,0002,0002,0002,000500
1900/0112,0002,0002,0002,000500
1901/0212,0002,0002,0002,000500
1902/0312,0002,0002,0002,000500
1903/0412,0002,0002,0002,000475
1904/0512,0002,0002,0002,000450
1905/0612,0002,0002,0002,000475

Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.

Places

Places of Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province1231879 to 1906

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Tapu Kalemi Baskitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Abdurrahman Zekai Bey1879 to 1906231,650 to 2,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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