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Place

Palu

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

10 officials are recorded serving in Palu, from 1878 to 1911 (AH 1296 to 1329), in 22 annual entries. The median of the 22 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş. The fullest year is 1889/90 with 2 officials.

Officials serving
10
Annual entries1878 to 1911, AH 1296 to 1329
22
Year with most officials2 officials
1889/90
Median monthly salaryfrom 22 recorded salaries
540 kuruş
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1889/90 (AH 1307) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 20.
0121882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13252 in 1889/90Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Palu
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1878/79 (AH 1296)111
1889/90 (AH 1307)222
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)111
1894/95 (AH 1312)111
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)111
1898/99 (AH 1316)212
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1900/01 (AH 1318)101
1901/02 (AH 1319)101
1902/03 (AH 1320)101
1903/04 (AH 1321)101
1904/05 (AH 1322)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)111
1906/07 (AH 1324)111
1910/11 (AH 1328)111
1911 (AH 1329)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 22 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş, the mean 562 kuruş.
05001,0001,5001882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325500 kuruş in 1911Palu, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Palu
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1878/7911,5001,5001,5001,500600
1889/902400400300500500
1890/911600600600600500
1891/921600600600600500
1892/931262262262262500
1894/951600600600600500
1895/961600600600600500
1896/971540540540540500
1897/981540540540540500
1898/992540540540540500
1899/19001540540540540500
1900/011540540540540500
1901/021540540540540500
1902/031540540540540500
1903/041540540540540475
1904/051540540540540450
1905/061500500500500475
1906/071500500500500450
1910/111500500500500500
19111500500500500500

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 6 officials.
3. Müdür6Muhabere Memuru3Kaymakam11878/79AH 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 13261910/11AH 13281 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, Palu
Year3. MüdürMuhabere MemuruKaymakam
1878/791
1889/9011
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/992
1899/19001
1900/011
1901/021
1902/031
1903/041
1904/051
1905/061
1906/071
1910/111
19111

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
PaluElazığErganiGöreleHarputHınıs1 official

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

10 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.
Hafiz Mehmet sukru EfendiHüseyin Şevki EfendiBesim EfendiOsman Şevki EfendiMehmet Ali EfendiMahmut Şükrü EfendiHasan Kadri EfendiMustafa Safvet EfendiUnnamed official (0086_0156:3…Ahmet Cemil Efendi1878/79AH 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 13261910/11AH 1328Post 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

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

Officials of Palu
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mahmut Şükrü Efendi1897 to 190583. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)
Besim Efendi1889 to 189233. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)600Kayseri
Mehmet Ali Efendi1894 to 189733. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600Ergani
Ahmet Cemil Efendi1910 to 19112Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Hınıs
Hafiz Mehmet sukru Efendi1878/791Kaymakamdistrict governor1,500Trabzon
Hasan Kadri Efendi1898/9913. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hüseyin Şevki Efendi1889/901Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)200Görele
Mustafa Safvet Efendi1905/0613. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Pleven (Plevne)
Osman Şevki Efendi1892/931Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)262Elazığ
Unnamed official (0086_0156:307)1906/0713. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Harput

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

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Bulanık1
Darende1
Harput1
Kayseri1
Pah1
Sivas1
Siverek1
Tortum1
Yemen1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Diyarbakır2
Aydın1
Basrul harir1
Erzurum1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Kayseri1
Keban1
Kâhta1
Pasinler (Hasankale)1
Names, position and identifiers of Palu
Place
Identifierl-5eb2825424995e75
Spelling in the cataloguepalu
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceDiyarbakır province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceErgani
PositionLatitude 38.692596, longitude 39.929417. Reference position
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
PaluEnglishPreferred nameEditor
PaluTurkishPreferred nameEditor
paluSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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