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Place

Merzifon

Place in Sivas province. Present-day country: Turkey.

16 officials are recorded serving in Merzifon, from 1869 to 1907 (AH 1286 to 1324), in 46 annual entries. The median of the 46 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1898/99 with 3 officials. 6 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
16
Annual entries1869 to 1907, AH 1286 to 1324
46
Year with most officials3 officials
1898/99
Median monthly salaryfrom 46 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
Officials born here
6
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1898/99 (AH 1316) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 31.
01231873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13203 in 1898/99Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Merzifon
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1869/70 (AH 1286)222
1870/71 (AH 1287)101
1871/72 (AH 1288)101
1872/73 (AH 1289)212
1873/74 (AH 1290)101
1880/81 (AH 1298)111
1881/82 (AH 1299)212
1882/83 (AH 1300)212
1883/84 (AH 1301)101
1884/85 (AH 1302)101
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)101
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)101
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)111
1893/94 (AH 1311)212
1894/95 (AH 1312)212
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)212
1898/99 (AH 1316)323
1899/1900 (AH 1317)202
1900/01 (AH 1318)212
1901/02 (AH 1319)212
1902/03 (AH 1320)202
1903/04 (AH 1321)202
1904/05 (AH 1322)212
1905/06 (AH 1323)101
1906/07 (AH 1324)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 46 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 503 kuruş.
02004006008001873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320540 kuruş in 1906/07Merzifon, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Merzifon
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1869/702700700650750600
1870/711800800800800600
1871/721760760760760550
1872/732630630565695550
1873/741760760760760500
1880/811500500500500500
1881/822400400350450500
1882/832400400350450500
1883/841500500500500500
1884/851500500500500500
1885/861500500500500500
1886/871500500500500500
1887/881500500500500500
1888/891500500500500500
1889/901500500500500500
1890/911500500500500500
1891/921500500500500500
1892/931500500500500500
1893/942500500500500500
1894/952400400350450500
1896/971500500500500500
1897/982450450425475500
1898/993500483.33450525500
1899/19002475475437.5512.5500
1900/012450450425475500
1901/022450450425475500
1902/032450450425475500
1903/042450450425475475
1904/052400400350450450
1905/061500500500500475
1906/071540540540540450

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

8 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 6 officials.
Muhabere Memuru63. Müdür4Başmuhabere Memuru22. Müdür1Arazi Kalemi1Başmüdür Kitabeti1Muhasebe Kalemi1Posta Memuru11869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 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 13241 official2 officials

The 8 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

The same numbers as a table
Officials by job title and year, Merzifon
YearMuhabere Memuru3. MüdürBaşmuhabere Memuru2. MüdürArazi KalemiBaşmüdür KitabetiMuhasebe KalemiPosta Memuru
1869/7011
1870/711
1871/721
1872/7311
1873/741
1880/811
1881/8211
1882/8311
1883/841
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/9411
1894/9511
1896/971
1897/9811
1898/9921
1899/190011
1900/0111
1901/0211
1902/0311
1903/0411
1904/0511
1905/061
1906/071

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 8 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) Other place

Where the officials serving here were born
MerzifonArapgirIstanbul (Dersaadet)SivasAmasyaArtvin (Livane)2 officials1 official

The 10 birthplaces with most officials, of 13, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Arapgir2
Istanbul (Dersaadet)2
Sivas2
Amasya1
Artvin (Livane)1
Çanakkale1
Crete (Girit)1
Edirne1
Harput1
Hayrabolu1
Where the officials born here were serving
MerzifonSivasAdanaAmasyaBlagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)BozkırHediyeFurther places2 officials1 official

The 10 places of service with most officials, of 22, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Sivas2
Adana1
Amasya1
Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)1
Bozkır1
Bursa1
Çatalca1
Diyarbakır1
Edirne1
Havsa1

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

16 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.

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

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

Officials of Merzifon
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmed Akif Efendi1882 to 189210Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official500Hayrabolu
Süleyman Sırrı Efendi1897 to 19047Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Arapgir
Ali Galip Efendi1901 to 190653. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Harput
Mustafa Sabri Efendi1869 to 187452. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)760 to 800Sivas
Ali Rıza Efendi1892 to 189533. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Edirne
Yakub Sabri Efendi1893 to 189833. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Çanakkale
Abdülhadi Efendi1881 to 18832Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Artvin (Livane)
Hasan Hüsnü Efendi1880 to 188223. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Trabzon
Mehmet Şükrü Efendi1898 to 19002Başmüdür Kitabeticlerkship of the chief director's office550Sivas
Ahmet Daim Efendi1872/731Arazi Kalemiland office500Amasya
Haci Ahmet Salâhattin Efendi1904/051Posta Memurupostal official300Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Haşim Zihni Efendi1900/011Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official500Yozgat
Mehmet Cemal Efendi1898/991Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Eşref Efendi1906/071Muhasebe Kalemiaccounts office540Lovech (Lofça)
Mustafa Behçet Efendi1894/951Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Crete (Girit)
Neşet Agop Tokluyan Yakop Efendi1869/701Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)600Arapgir

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

6 officials of the collection were 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. Osman Nuri Efendi 1887 to 1906, Diyarbakır
  2. Hasan Hüsnü Efendi 1885 to 1898, Sivas
  3. Ahmet Rifat Efendi 1892 to 1906, Ioannina (Yanya)
  4. Mehmet Hilmi Efendi 1895 to 1904, Melnik (Menlik)
  5. Ömer Rasim Efendi 1907 to 1909, Amasya
  6. Mehmet Efendi 1908/09, Edirne

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)1
Boyabat1
Bursa1
Cayagzi1
Cidabiye1
Delvine1
Diyarbakır1
Geyve1
Gümüşhane1
Preveza (Preveze)1

The 10 places with most officials, of 16.

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Diyarbakır2
Artvin (Livane)1
Beirut (Beyrut)1
Bursa1
Canik1
Damascus (Şam)1
Havsa1
Kumru1
Preveza (Preveze)1
Sivas1

The 10 places with most officials, of 13.

Names, position and identifiers of Merzifon
Place
Identifierl-1b9983d942d29e5a
Spelling in the cataloguemerzifon
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceSivas province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceamasya
PositionLatitude 40.872436, longitude 35.462132. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
MerzifonEnglishPreferred nameEditor
MerzifonTurkishPreferred nameEditor
MerzifonSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
merzifonSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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