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Place

Niksar

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

6 officials are recorded serving in Niksar, from 1885 to 1908 (AH 1303 to 1325), in 22 annual entries. The median of the 22 recorded monthly salaries is 400 kuruş. The fullest year is 1891/92 with 2 officials. 1 official of the collection was born here.

Officials serving
6
Annual entries1885 to 1908, AH 1303 to 1325
22
Year with most officials2 officials
1891/92
Median monthly salaryfrom 22 recorded salaries
400 kuruş
Officials born here
1
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1891/92 (AH 1309) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 19.
0121887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13252 in 1891/92Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Niksar
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1885/86 (AH 1303)111
1890/91 (AH 1308)111
1891/92 (AH 1309)212
1892/93 (AH 1310)202
1893/94 (AH 1311)202
1894/95 (AH 1312)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)111
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)101
1907/08 (AH 1325)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 22 recorded monthly salaries is 400 kuruş, the mean 399 kuruş.
01002003004001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325400 kuruş in 1907/08Niksar, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Niksar
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1885/861380380380380500
1890/911400400400400500
1891/922400400400400500
1892/932400400400400500
1893/942400400400400500
1894/951400400400400500
1895/961400400400400500
1896/971400400400400500
1897/981400400400400500
1898/991400400400400500
1899/19001400400400400500
1900/011400400400400500
1901/021400400400400500
1902/031400400400400500
1903/041400400400400475
1904/051400400400400450
1905/061400400400400475
1906/071400400400400450
1907/081400400400400300

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

2 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 5 officials.
Muhabere Memuru5Merkez Memuru11886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241 official

The 2 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, Niksar
YearMuhabere MemuruMerkez Memuru
1885/861
1890/911
1891/9211
1892/9311
1893/9411
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1900/011
1901/021
1902/031
1903/041
1904/051
1905/061
1906/071
1907/081

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 2 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
NiksarAmasyaEğirdirIstanbul (Dersaadet)Karadeniz EreğliSivas1 official

All 6 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Amasya1
Eğirdir1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Karadeniz Ereğli1
Sivas1
Tokat1

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Istanbul (Dersaadet) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

6 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.
Ahmet Kadri EfendiHafız Süleyman Şükrü EfendiMustafa Kafi Efendiİbrahim Edhem Efendiİbrahim Ethem EfendiMehmet Lütfi Efendi1886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 1324Post 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

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

Officials of Niksar
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
İbrahim Edhem Efendi1898 to 19057Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Sivas
Mustafa Kafi Efendi1891 to 18987Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Tokat
Hafız Süleyman Şükrü Efendi1890 to 18944Merkez Memurucentral office official400Eğirdir
İbrahim Ethem Efendi1905 to 19072Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Amasya
Ahmet Kadri Efendi1885/861Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Karadeniz Ereğli
Mehmet Lütfi Efendi1907/081Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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. Hüseyin Rıza Efendi 1908/09, Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Akdağmadeni (Akdağ)1
Amasya1
Samsun1
Zakho (Zaho)1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Adana1
Amasya1
Karadeniz Ereğli1
Kırklareli1
Mersin1
Rawanduz (Revanduz)1
Names, position and identifiers of Niksar
Place
Identifierl-70926654f2e48a90
Spelling in the catalogueniksar
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceSivas province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencetokat
PositionLatitude 40.590001, longitude 36.952772. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
NiksarEnglishPreferred nameEditor
NiksarTurkishPreferred nameEditor
NiksarSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
niksarSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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