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Foča (Foça)

Place in Bosnia (Bosna) province. Present-day country: Bosnia and Herzegovina.

7 officials are recorded serving in Foča (Foça), from 1876 to 1909 (AH 1293 to 1326), in 24 annual entries. The median of the 24 recorded monthly salaries is 600 kuruş. The fullest year is 1899/1900 with 2 officials. 1 official of the collection was born here.

Officials serving
7
Annual entries1876 to 1909, AH 1293 to 1326
24
Year with most officials2 officials
1899/1900
Median monthly salaryfrom 24 recorded salaries
600 kuruş
Officials born here
1
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1899/1900 (AH 1317) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 22.
0121878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13252 in 1899/1900Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Foča (Foça)
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1876/77 (AH 1293)111
1877/78 (AH 1294)111
1879/80 (AH 1297)111
1880/81 (AH 1298)101
1881/82 (AH 1299)101
1882/83 (AH 1300)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)111
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)111
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1899/1900 (AH 1317)202
1900/01 (AH 1318)202
1901/02 (AH 1319)101
1902/03 (AH 1320)101
1907/08 (AH 1325)111
1908/09 (AH 1326)111

An official is counted once in a year. First recorded is the first year in which the collection has an annual entry of the official on this page. It is not a hiring date.

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 24 recorded monthly salaries is 600 kuruş, the mean 623 kuruş.
02004006008001878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325540 kuruş in 1908/09Foča (Foça), fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Foča (Foça)
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1876/771800800800800575
1877/781600600600600560
1879/801800800800800500
1880/811800800800800500
1881/821800800800800500
1882/831800800800800500
1883/841800800800800500
1889/901600600600600500
1890/911600600600600500
1891/921600600600600500
1892/931600600600600500
1893/941600600600600500
1894/951600600600600500
1895/961600600600600500
1897/981540540540540500
1898/991540540540540500
1899/19002540540540540500
1900/012540540540540500
1901/021540540540540500
1902/031540540540540500
1907/081500500500500300
1908/091540540540540350

Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.

Jobs each year

3 job titles on record. The most frequent is 3. Müdür, held by 5 officials.
3. Müdür5Muhabere Memuru22. Müdür11877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 13261 official2 officials

The 3 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

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Officials by job title and year, Foča (Foça)
Year3. MüdürMuhabere Memuru2. Müdür
1876/771
1877/781
1879/801
1880/811
1881/821
1882/831
1883/841
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951
1895/961
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19002
1900/012
1901/021
1902/031
1907/081
1908/091

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 3 titles. Over all years an official is counted once under each title. A title with a page of its own is a link.

Birthplaces and places of service

A line links a birthplace and a place of service. A thicker line means more officials, and the arrow head points from the birthplace to the place of service. Places far away are drawn in a small map in a corner.

All years

Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak District (kaza)

Where the officials serving here were born
Foča (Foça)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Bitola (Manastır)Kemaliye (Eğin)Niš (Niş)Sivas2 officials1 official

All 6 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Istanbul (Dersaadet)2
Bitola (Manastır)1
Kemaliye (Eğin)1
Niš (Niş)1
Sivas1
Trabzon1

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma) (1), Izmir (İzmir) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

7 officials, ordered by the first year on record. A row shows in which years an official has an annual entry here and where the entries stop.
Osman Nuri EfendiMustafa Şükrü EfendiAhmet Rıfat EfendiHasan Sezai EfendiÖmer Adil EfendiHacı Ahmet Cevdet EfendiMustafa Vehbi Efendi1877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 1326Post and Telegraph entry

A gap in a row is a year without an annual entry here. It does not show that the official had left. The list of officials gives the first and the last year of each.

Ottoman officials recorded here

7 officials, the one with most annual entries here first.

Officials of Foča (Foça)
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Rıfat Efendi1879 to 190172. Müdürdirector of the second grade540 to 800Sivas
Hasan Sezai Efendi1889 to 189673. Müdürdirector of the third grade600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ömer Adil Efendi1897 to 190363. Müdürdirector of the third grade540Bitola (Manastır)
Hacı Ahmet Cevdet Efendi1907/0813. Müdürdirector of the third grade500Trabzon
Mustafa Şükrü Efendi1877/781Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)600Niš (Niş)
Mustafa Vehbi Efendi1908/0913. Müdürdirector of the third grade540Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Osman Nuri Efendi1876/771Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Kemaliye (Eğin)

Years here run from the first to the last annual entry here. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

Officials born here

1 official of the collection was born here. None of them is also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Halil Cemil Efendi 1903 to 1906, Izmir (İzmir)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Erbil1
Eşme1
Mitrovica (Mitroviça)1
Pristina (Priştine)1
Tavas1
Ünye1
Names, position and identifiers of Foča (Foça)
Place
Identifierl-035baa737d2a1349
Spelling in the cataloguefoca
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceBosnia (Bosna)
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceMostar
PositionLatitude 43.505758, longitude 18.774152. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryBosnia and Herzegovina
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
FoçaTurkishPreferred nameEditor
FočaEnglishPreferred nameEditor
FocaSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
focaSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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

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