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Job title

Temyiz Mahkemesi Riyaseti

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

2 officials held the job title Temyiz Mahkemesi Riyaseti. Its 8 annual entries run from 1875 to 1879 (AH 1292 to 1296). The median of the 8 recorded monthly salaries is 4,000 kuruş, against 582.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Adana, with 1.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1292 to 1296, 5 years with an entry
1875 to 1879
Median monthly salaryfrom 8 recorded salaries
4,000 kuruş
Places with officials
3

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Temyiz Mahkemesi Riyaseti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.

History

The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.

Sources

  1. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. 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)
AdanaIoannina (Yanya)Van1 official

All 3 places, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Adana1
Ioannina (Yanya)1
Van1

Places

Places of Temyiz Mahkemesi Riyaseti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
AdanaAdana province141875 to 1878
Ioannina (Yanya)Ioannina (Yanya) province121876 to 1878
VanVan province121878 to 1879

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Temyiz Mahkemesi Riyaseti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hafiz Mehmet Rustu Efendi1875 to 187844,000Gaza (Gazze)
Mehmet Sukru Efendi1876 to 187944,000 to 5,000Mardin

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.

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