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Job title

Yevmiye Kitabeti

Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry

1 official held the job title Yevmiye Kitabeti. Its 1 annual entry fall in 1903/04 (AH 1321). One monthly salary is recorded, 150 kuruş. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1321, 1 year with an entry
1903/04
Median monthly salaryfrom 1 recorded salary
150 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry

No source read describes Yevmiye Kitabeti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices that wrote, copied, registered and kept the papers of a department: correspondence offices (tahrirat), the offices of the corresponding secretary (mektubi), records offices (evrak) and registrars (mukayyit).

Hard skills

  • official writing (kitabet, inşa) and fine handwriting, taught first in the offices and from 1839 in schools for officials

History

Before the reforms clerks were trained in the offices (kalem) themselves. Boys of twelve, or even seven or eight, attended an office and learned the forms of official writing from senior clerks; after three to five years without pay they became supernumeraries (mülazım) on a small salary.

Sources

  1. Akyıldız, Ali (2019). Mekteb-i Maârif-i Adliyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, supplement vol. 2 (revised third printing), 236-238. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 236. Used for: hard skills, history.
  2. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 78, 171-172, 199. Used for: summary.
  3. İpşirli, Mehmet (2001). Kalemiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 24, 248-249. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 248-249. Used for: hard skills, history.

Places

Places of Yevmiye Kitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province111903/04

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Yevmiye Kitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
İBRAHİM KEMALETTİN EFENDİ1903/041150Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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