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Job title

Ticaret Mahkemesi Kitabeti

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

2 officials held the job title Ticaret Mahkemesi Kitabeti. Its 4 annual entries run from 1860 to 1874 (AH 1277 to 1290). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, against 525 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 1.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1277 to 1290, 4 years with an entry
1860 to 1874
Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries
800 kuruş
Places with officials
2

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Ticaret Mahkemesi Kitabeti 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.

Places

Places of Ticaret Mahkemesi Kitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province121872 to 1874
YozgatAnkara province121860 to 1862

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Ticaret Mahkemesi Kitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Agop Efendi1872 to 187421,100Izmir (İzmir)
Omer Rahmi Efendi1860 to 18622500Yozgat

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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