Skip to content
Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service

Place

Taif

Place in Hejaz (Hicaz) province. Present-day country: Saudi Arabia.

6 officials are recorded serving in Taif, from 1884 to 1904 (AH 1302 to 1321), in 24 annual entries. The median of the 24 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş. The fullest year is 1900/01 with 2 officials. 1 official of the collection was born here.

Officials serving
6
Annual entries1884 to 1904, AH 1302 to 1321
24
Year with most officials2 officials
1900/01
Median monthly salaryfrom 24 recorded salaries
800 kuruş
Officials born here
1
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1900/01 (AH 1318) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 20.
0121884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13202 in 1900/01Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Taif
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1884/85 (AH 1302)111
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)111
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)111
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
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)212
1901/02 (AH 1319)202
1902/03 (AH 1320)202
1903/04 (AH 1321)212

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 24 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, the mean 916 kuruş.
05001,0001,5001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 1320800 kuruş in 1903/04Taif, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Taif
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1884/851750750750750500
1885/861750750750750500
1886/871750750750750500
1887/881800800800800500
1888/891800800800800500
1889/901800800800800500
1890/911800800800800500
1891/921800800800800500
1892/9311,3001,3001,3001,300500
1893/9411,3001,3001,3001,300500
1894/9511,3001,3001,3001,300500
1895/9611,3001,3001,3001,300500
1896/9711,1701,1701,1701,170500
1897/9811,1701,1701,1701,170500
1898/991900900900900500
1899/19001900900900900500
1900/012700700600800500
1901/022850850825875500
1902/032850850825875500
1903/042800800800800475

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 2. Müdür, held by 3 officials.
2. Müdür3Muhabere Memuru31. Müdür11884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211 official

The 3 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, Taif
Year2. MüdürMuhabere Memuru1. Müdür
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1900/0111
1901/0211
1902/0311
1903/0411

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) Other place

Where the officials serving here were born
TaifArapgirBoyabatIstanbul (Dersaadet)SivasStara Zagora (Eski Zağra)1 official

Not drawn, with the number of officials. No position recorded: Cerkezistan (1).

All 6 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Arapgir1
Boyabat1
Cerkezistan1no position recorded
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Sivas1
Stara Zagora (Eski Zağra)1

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Suakin (Sevakin) (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.
Mustafa Ziver EfendiHafız Hilmi EfendiAli Tevfik EfendiMehmet Arif EfendiBekir Sarim EfendiMustafa Fazıl Efendi1884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 1320Post 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 Taif
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hafız Hilmi Efendi1887 to 189882. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)800 to 1,300Cerkezistan
Mehmet Arif Efendi1898 to 190352. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)900Boyabat
Bekir Sarim Efendi1900 to 19044Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500 to 800Arapgir
Ali Tevfik Efendi1889 to 18923Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Ziver Efendi1884 to 18873Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)750Stara Zagora (Eski Zağra)
Mustafa Fazıl Efendi1903/0412. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)800Sivas

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. Abdullah Sıdkı Efendi 1906/07, Suakin (Sevakin)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Hicaz2
Arapgir1
Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)1
Mecca (Mekke)1
Sivas1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Al-Shaykh Maskin (Şeyhmiskin)1
Hicaz1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Mecca (Mekke)1
Vlorë (Avlonya)1
Çorlu1
Names, position and identifiers of Taif
Place
Identifierl-73e61681e59393de
Spelling in the cataloguetaif
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceHejaz (Hicaz)
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencemekke
PositionLatitude 21.286457, longitude 40.419578. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countrySaudi Arabia
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
TaifEnglishPreferred nameEditor
TaifTurkishPreferred nameEditor
TaifSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
taifSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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