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Place

Karbala (Kerbela)

Place in Baghdad (Bağdat) province. Present-day country: Iraq.

18 officials are recorded serving in Karbala (Kerbela), from 1868 to 1908 (AH 1285 to 1325), in 59 annual entries. The median of the 59 recorded monthly salaries is 684 kuruş. The fullest year is 1889/90 with 3 officials.

Officials serving
18
Annual entries1868 to 1908, AH 1285 to 1325
59
Year with most officials3 officials
1889/90
Median monthly salaryfrom 59 recorded salaries
684 kuruş
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1889/90 (AH 1307) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 40.
01231868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13253 in 1889/90Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Karbala (Kerbela)
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1868/69 (AH 1285)111
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1870/71 (AH 1287)101
1871/72 (AH 1288)212
1872/73 (AH 1289)101
1873/74 (AH 1290)101
1874/75 (AH 1291)101
1875/76 (AH 1292)101
1877/78 (AH 1294)111
1878 (AH 1295)101
1878/79 (AH 1296)101
1879/80 (AH 1297)111
1880/81 (AH 1298)101
1881/82 (AH 1299)101
1882/83 (AH 1300)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)111
1884/85 (AH 1302)111
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)101
1888/89 (AH 1306)212
1889/90 (AH 1307)323
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)202
1892/93 (AH 1310)212
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)212
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)212
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1899/1900 (AH 1317)323
1900/01 (AH 1318)303
1901/02 (AH 1319)303
1902/03 (AH 1320)202
1903/04 (AH 1321)313
1904/05 (AH 1322)202
1905/06 (AH 1323)111
1906/07 (AH 1324)111
1907/08 (AH 1325)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 59 recorded monthly salaries is 684 kuruş, the mean 654 kuruş.
02004006008001,0001,2001868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325200 kuruş in 1907/08Karbala (Kerbela), fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Karbala (Kerbela)
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1868/691600600600600600
1869/701600600600600600
1870/711600600600600600
1871/722837.5837.5706.25968.75550
1872/731575575575575550
1873/7411,0001,0001,0001,000500
1874/7511,0001,0001,0001,000535
1875/7611,0001,0001,0001,000530
1877/781400400400400560
18781400400400400600
1878/791400400400400600
1879/801385385385385500
1880/811385385385385500
1881/821385385385385500
1882/831385385385385500
1883/841500500500500500
1884/8511,2001,2001,2001,200500
1885/8611,2001,2001,2001,200500
1886/8711,2001,2001,2001,200500
1887/8811,2001,2001,2001,200500
1888/8928508506751,025500
1889/903800833.336501,000500
1890/912650650575725500
1891/922650650575725500
1892/932630630565695500
1893/941760760760760500
1894/952630630565695500
1895/961760760760760500
1896/972467467358.5575.5500
1897/981684684684684500
1898/991684684684684500
1899/19003684564.67467722500
1900/013684564.67467722500
1901/023684564.67467722500
1902/032467467358.5575.5500
1903/043684671.33467882475
1904/052665665457.5872.5450
1905/061600600600600475
1906/071200200200200450
1907/081200200200200300

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 9 officials.
Muhabere Memuru92. Müdür6Başmuhabere Memuru2Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti2Defter-i Hakani Kalemi11868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13251 official2 officials

The 5 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

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Officials by job title and year, Karbala (Kerbela)
YearMuhabere Memuru2. MüdürBaşmuhabere MemuruMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuriyetiDefter-i Hakani Kalemi
1868/691
1869/701
1870/711
1871/7211
1872/731
1873/741
1874/751
1875/761
1877/781
18781
1878/791
1879/801
1880/811
1881/821
1882/831
1883/841
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/8911
1889/90111
1890/9111
1891/9211
1892/9311
1893/941
1894/9511
1895/961
1896/9711
1897/981
1898/991
1899/190012
1900/0112
1901/0212
1902/0311
1903/0412
1904/0511
1905/061
1906/071
1907/081

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
Karbala (Kerbela)Baghdad (Bağdat)Kirkuk (Kerkük)Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde)DiyarbakırErzurum11 officials1 official

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

18 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.

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

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

Officials of Karbala (Kerbela)
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
İsmail Hakkı Efendi1877 to 1904142. Müdürdirector of the second grade400 to 760Kirkuk (Kerkük)
Hacı Ömer Efendi1869 to 18938Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)575 to 1,000Diyarbakır
İbrahim Hakki Efendi1884 to 18906Defter-i Hakani KalemiLand Registry office1,200Kafkasya
Mehmet Said Efendi1899 to 19056Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ahmet Midhat Bey1879 to 18834Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)385Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde)
Abdülbaki Efendi1889 to 189232. Müdürdirector of the second grade800Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ahmet Fehmi Efendi1899 to 190232. Müdürdirector of the second grade760Khanaqin (Hanikin)
Yosef Efendi1889 to 18923Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ahmet Tevfik Efendi1906 to 19082Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)200Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Şerif Efendi1903 to 190522. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,080Erzurum
Abdulhamit Efendi1871/7212. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,100Baghdad (Bağdat)
İbrahim Sabri Efendi1868/691Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)600Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehdi Fevzi Efendi1892/931Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Ali Efendi1896/971Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Ruhi Efendi1905/061Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official600Kirkuk (Kerkük)
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1894/951Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Salih Naci Efendi1888/891Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Sason Efendi1883/841Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official500Baghdad (Bağdat)

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

Names, position and identifiers of Karbala (Kerbela)
Place
Identifierl-8382a796b641e30c
Spelling in the cataloguekerbela
NameName matched
Kind of placeSeat of a sancak
ProvinceBaghdad (Bağdat) province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceKerbela
PositionLatitude 32.604596, longitude 44.021485. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryIraq
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KarbalaEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KerbelaTurkishPreferred nameEditor
KerbelaSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
kerbelaSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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

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