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Job title

Ticaret Mahkemesi Tercumanligi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

1 official held the job title Ticaret Mahkemesi Tercumanligi. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1869/70 (AH 1286). One monthly salary is recorded, 500 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Nevşehir.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1286, 1 year with an entry
1869/70
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
500 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Ticaret Mahkemesi Tercumanligi 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 Tercumanligi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
NevşehirKonya province111869/70

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Ticaret Mahkemesi Tercumanligi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Kostaki Vayaki Efendi1869/701500Nevşehir

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

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