Job title
Vilayet Mufettisi
Group of job titles: Inspection and control
1 official held the job title Vilayet Mufettisi. Its 2 annual entries run from 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315). The median of the 2 recorded monthly salaries is 7,125 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Edirne.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1314 to 1315, 2 years with an entry
- 1896 to 1898
- Median monthly salaryfrom 2 recorded salaries
- 7,125 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Inspection and control
No source read describes Vilayet Mufettisi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Inspectors and their offices. In the post and telegraph service inspectors watched over the offices and lines of a region, tested lines and offices and kept a journal of their findings; the directors of the offices answered to them.
History
The regulation of November 1876 provided travelling inspectors to see that the post and telegraph worked regularly. The inspectorships were abolished in 1880 and restored less than a year later.
Sources
- Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 377. Used for: summary.
- Güneş, Mahir Melih (2026). Anadolu'da Telgrafın Toplumsal Tarihi (1856-1908). Doctoral thesis, Hacettepe University. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 115. Used for: summary.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 49, 103-104. Used for: summary, history.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edirne | Edirne province | 1 | 2 | 1896 to 1898 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mustafa Vasfi Efendi | 1896 to 1898 | 2 | 6,750 to 7,500 | Diyarbakır |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Vilayet Mufettisi
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)