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Place

Kemah

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

7 officials are recorded serving in Kemah, from 1876 to 1906 (AH 1293 to 1323), in 40 annual entries. The median of the 40 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1884/85 with 2 officials. 20 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
7
Annual entries1876 to 1906, AH 1293 to 1323
40
Year with most officials2 officials
1884/85
Median monthly salaryfrom 40 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
Officials born here
20
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1884/85 (AH 1302) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 27.
0121878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13202 in 1884/85Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Kemah
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1876/77 (AH 1293)111
1878 (AH 1295)111
1881/82 (AH 1299)111
1882/83 (AH 1300)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)111
1884/85 (AH 1302)212
1885/86 (AH 1303)202
1886/87 (AH 1304)202
1887/88 (AH 1305)202
1888/89 (AH 1306)202
1889/90 (AH 1307)202
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)202
1892/93 (AH 1310)202
1893/94 (AH 1311)202
1894/95 (AH 1312)202
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1900/01 (AH 1318)101
1901/02 (AH 1319)101
1902/03 (AH 1320)212
1903/04 (AH 1321)212
1904/05 (AH 1322)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)101

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 40 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 479 kuruş.
02004006008001,0001,2001878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320500 kuruş in 1905/06Kemah, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Kemah
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1876/7711,1201,1201,1201,120575
187811,0001,0001,0001,000600
1881/821600600600600500
1882/831600600600600500
1883/841500500500500500
1884/852325325237.5412.5500
1885/862325325237.5412.5500
1886/872325325237.5412.5500
1887/882325325237.5412.5500
1888/892375375262.5487.5500
1889/902375375262.5487.5500
1890/912375375262.5487.5500
1891/922375375262.5487.5500
1892/932375375262.5487.5500
1893/942400400275525500
1894/952400400275525500
1895/961700700700700500
1896/971600600600600500
1897/981600600600600500
1898/991600600600600500
1899/19001600600600600500
1900/011600600600600500
1901/021600600600600500
1902/032550550525575500
1903/042500500500500475
1904/051500500500500450
1905/061500500500500475

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

5 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 3 officials.
Muhabere Memuru32. Müdür13. Müdür1Kaymakam1Muvassil11877/78AH 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 13221 official2 officials

The 5 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, Kemah
YearMuhabere Memuru2. Müdür3. MüdürKaymakamMuvassil
1876/771
18781
1881/821
1882/831
1883/841
1884/8511
1885/8611
1886/8711
1887/8811
1888/8911
1889/9011
1890/9111
1891/9211
1892/9311
1893/9411
1894/9511
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1900/011
1901/021
1902/032
1903/042
1904/051
1905/061

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 5 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
Kemah4 born hereKomotini (Gümülcine)SivasTrabzon1 official

All 4 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Kemah4this place
Komotini (Gümülcine)1
Sivas1
Trabzon1
Where the officials born here were serving
Kemah4 serving hereErzincanIstanbul (Dersaadet)SivasAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Aleppo (Halep)Further places5 officials1 official

The 10 places of service with most officials, of 57, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Erzincan5
Istanbul (Dersaadet)4
Kemah4this place
Sivas3
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)2
Aleppo (Halep)2
Galata2
Ioannina (Yanya)2
Adana1
Ağrı (Karakilise)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.
Haci Tahsin EfendiMustafa Ragıp EfendiOhannes Şükran EfendiMustafa Hulusi Efendiİbrahim Ethem EfendiMehmet Hilmi Efendiİbrahim 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 1322Post and Telegraph entryEntry of another institution

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 Kemah
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mustafa Hulusi Efendi1883 to 190320Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500 to 700Kemah
İbrahim Ethem Efendi1884 to 189511Muvassil150Kemah
İbrahim Efendi1903 to 19063Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Komotini (Gümülcine)
Mehmet Hilmi Efendi1902 to 19042Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Sivas
Ohannes Şükran Efendi1881 to 188323. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)600Kemah
Haci Tahsin Efendi1876/771Kaymakamdistrict governor1,120Trabzon
Mustafa Ragıp Efendi187812. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)1,000Kemah

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

20 officials of the collection were born here. 4 of them are also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Hasan Tahsin Efendi 1863 to 1901, Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  2. Hacı Mehmet Tevfik Efendi 1862 to 1898, Amasya
  3. Mahmud Nedim Efendi 1871 to 1903, Elazığ
  4. Mehmet Şevket Efendi 1869 to 1901, Niğde
  5. Hüseyin Besim Efendi 1859 to 1890, Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  6. Tatar Ağası Zade Hafız Abdullah Efendi 1869 to 1898, Sivas
  7. Mustafa Hulusi Efendi 1875 to 1907, Kemah
  8. Ali Rıza Eendi 1857 to 1883, Edirne
  9. Osman Nuri Efendi 1877 to 1903, Sivas
  10. İsmail Hıfzı Efendi 1884 to 1906, Adana
  11. İbrahim Ethem Efendi 1884 to 1905, Kemah
  12. Mehmet Muhsin Efendi 1885 to 1905, Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
  13. Mehmet Şevki Efendi 1891 to 1904, Aydın
  14. Halil Hakkı Efendi 1896 to 1906, Akşehir
  15. Mustafa Ragıp Efendi 1870 to 1878, Erzincan
  16. Hacı Mehmet Mecit Efendi 1863 to 1869, Ağrı (Karakilise)
  17. Ohannes Şükran Efendi 1877 to 1886, Erzincan
  18. Mehmet Dursun Efendi 1901 to 1906, Akabetus sam
  19. Mustafa Vehbi Efendi 1897 to 1899, Kurucay
  20. Unnamed official (0006_0294; 583) 1876 to 1911, Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Where the same officials are also recorded

The number in brackets is the number of officials.

Recorded here, and in a later year in: Erzincan (3), Galata (1), Istanbul (Dersaadet) (1).

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in: Erzincan (4), Erzurum (1), Jeddah (Cidde) (1).

Names, position and identifiers of Kemah
Place
Identifierl-5807a9c669912a04
Spelling in the cataloguekemah
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceErzurum province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceErzincan
PositionLatitude 39.602299, longitude 39.035136. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KemahEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KemahTurkishPreferred nameEditor
KemahSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
kemahSpelling 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: Polat (2014), 77 entries, 4 probably and 7 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

YUNUS EMRE POLAT (2014), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Kemahlı).

Entries of Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Hüseyin Besim EfendiPDF 46, 47; printed 35, 36Probably Hüseyin Besim Efendi
Tatar Ağası Zade Hafız Abdullah EfendiPDF 50, 51; printed 39, 40Probably Tatar Ağası Zade Hafız Abdullah Efendi
Osman Nuri EfendiPDF 51; printed 40Possibly Osman Nuri Efendi
Osman Nuri EfendiPDF 61, 62; printed 50, 51Possibly Osman Nuri Efendi
Mehmet Tevfik EfendiPDF 62, 63; printed 51, 52Possibly Hacı Mehmet Tevfik Efendi
Mehmet Şevki EfendiPDF 65, 66; printed 54, 55Possibly Mehmet Şevki Efendi
Mehmet Şevki EfendiPDF 69; printed 58Possibly Mehmet Şevki Efendi
Halil Hakkı EfendiPDF 76, 77; printed 65, 66Probably Halil Hakkı Efendi
Mehmet Dursun EfendiPDF 81; printed 70Probably Mehmet Dursun Efendi

68 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.