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Place

Elbistan

Place in Aleppo (Halep) province. Present-day country: Turkey.

4 officials are recorded serving in Elbistan. Hacı Ahmet Behçet Efendi is recorded as 3. Müdür here from 1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304), with 600 kuruş a month. Born in Kayseri. Mustafa Şevket Efendi is recorded as Muhabere Memuru here from 1887 to 1893, with 500 to 600 kuruş a month. Born in Bosna. Mustafa Sabri Efendi is recorded as Muhabere Memuru here from 1889 to 1891, with 250 kuruş a month. Born here. Aziz Mahmut Efendi is recorded as 3. Müdür here from 1893 to 1899, with 540 to 600 kuruş a month. Born in Istanbul. 5 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
4
Annual entries1883 to 1899, AH 1301 to 1316
18
Year with most officials2 officials
1889/90
Median monthly salaryfrom 18 recorded salaries
540 kuruş
Officials born here
5

This place has too few annual entries for charts. For officials, salaries and jobs in the region seeAleppo (Halep) province.

Birthplaces and places of service

Birthplaces of the officials recorded here, with the number of officials: Bosna (1), Elbistan (1), Istanbul (Dersaadet) (1), Kayseri (1).

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Akçadağ (1), Basra (1), Çanakkale (1), Cizre (1), Elbistan (1), Hama (1), Hillah (Hille) (1), Idlib (İdlib) (1), Jerusalem (Kudüs) (1), Kahramanmaraş (Maraş) (1), Kastamonu (1), Maskanah (Meskene) (1) and 3 further places of service.

Ottoman officials recorded here

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

Officials of Elbistan
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Aziz Mahmut Efendi1893 to 189963. Müdürdirector of the third grade540 to 600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Şevket Efendi1887 to 18936Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500 to 600Bosna
Hacı Ahmet Behçet Efendi1883 to 188743. Müdürdirector of the third grade600Kayseri
Mustafa Sabri Efendi1889 to 18912Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Elbistan

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

5 officials of the collection were born here. 1 of them is also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Mustafa Sabri Efendi 1889 to 1906, Osmaniye
  2. İbrahim Hakkı Efendi 1895 to 1900, Kastamonu
  3. Ali Rıza Efendi 1903 to 1906, Thessaloniki (Selanik)
  4. Mehmet Şevki Efendi 1907 to 1909, Jerusalem (Kudüs)
  5. Unnamed official (0087_0093, sayfa no:183.) 1893 to 1905, Hillah (Hille)

Where the same officials are also recorded

The number in brackets is the number of officials.

Recorded here, and in a later year in: Idlib (İdlib) (2), Birecik (1), Tarsus (1).

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in: Tokat (2), Aleppo (Halep) (1).

Names, position and identifiers of Elbistan
Place
Identifierl-3457b98230851a90
Spelling in the catalogueelbistan
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceAleppo (Halep) province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencemaras
PositionLatitude 38.207249, longitude 37.193184. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
ElbistanEnglishPreferred nameEditor
ElbistanTurkishPreferred nameEditor
ElbistanSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
elbistanSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

Named in works about this place

One work of the source register covers people born in or from this place: Bülbül (2025), 35 entries, 3 probably and 3 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Elbistanlı memurlar

ŞEYMA BÜLBÜL (2025), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Elbistanlı).

Entries of Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Elbistanlı memurlar
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Ahmet Efendi (H.1279)PDF 48, 49, 50Named in the work only
Ahmet Hamdi Efendi (H.1274)PDF 50Named in the work only
Ali Avni Efendi (H. 1298)PDF 50, 51Named in the work only
Ali Nuri Efendi (H.1278)PDF 51, 52Named in the work only
Ali Rıza Efendi (H.1237)PDF 52, 53Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi
Ali Rıza Efendi (H. 1282)PDF 53Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi
Ali Rıza Efendi (H. 1295)PDF 53, 54Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi
Ali Rıza Efendi (H. 1299)PDF 54, 55Probably Ali Rıza Efendi
Arslan Efendi (H.1303)PDF 55Named in the work only
Hasan Fehmi Efendi (H. 1253)PDF 55, 56, 57Named in the work only
Hasan Tahsin Efendi (H. 1278)PDF 57, 58Named in the work only
Hüseyin Naci Efendi (H. 1289)PDF 58, 59Named in the work only
Mehmet Şevki Efendi (H. 1305)PDF 69Probably Mehmet Şevki Efendi
Mustafa Sabri Efendi (H. 1286)PDF 76, 77Probably Mustafa Sabri Efendi

21 more entries are onthe page of the work.

A probable or possible link is made by fixed rules from the name, the birthplace, the birth year and the archive reference. It is not confirmed.

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

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