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Place

Bozcaada

Place in Archipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid) province. Present-day country: Turkey. Other names: Tenedos.

6 officials are recorded serving in Bozcaada, from 1892 to 1903 (AH 1310 to 1320), in 21 annual entries. The median of the 21 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1897/98 with 3 officials.

Officials serving
6
Annual entries1892 to 1903, AH 1310 to 1320
21
Year with most officials3 officials
1897/98
Median monthly salaryfrom 21 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1897/98 (AH 1315) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 11.
01231892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13203 in 1897/98Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Bozcaada
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1892/93 (AH 1310)111
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)212
1896/97 (AH 1314)212
1897/98 (AH 1315)313
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1899/1900 (AH 1317)313
1900/01 (AH 1318)303
1901/02 (AH 1319)313
1902/03 (AH 1320)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 21 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 517 kuruş.
02004006008001892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 1320550 kuruş in 1902/03Bozcaada, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Bozcaada
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1892/931500500500500500
1893/941500500500500500
1894/951500500500500500
1895/962525525512.5537.5500
1896/972597.5597.5546.25648.75500
1897/983700731.67597.5850500
1898/991495495495495500
1899/19003495431.67372.5522.5500
1900/013495431.67372.5522.5500
1901/023490430370520500
1902/031550550550550500

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

4 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 3 officials.
Muhabere Memuru3Memur23. Müdür1Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti11892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201 official3 officials

The 4 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

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Officials by job title and year, Bozcaada
YearMuhabere MemuruMemur3. MüdürMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951
1895/9611
1896/9711
1897/98111
1898/991
1899/190021
1900/0121
1901/023
1902/031

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 4 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
BozcaadaIstanbul (Dersaadet)Omurtag (Osmanpazarı)Pazardzhik (Tatarpazarcığı)TrabzonVidin2 officials1 official

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 Nihalettin EfendiHasan Şevket EfendiSalih Celalettin EfendiRüştü EfendiHafiz Salih EfendiMehmet Said Efendi1892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 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 Bozcaada
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hasan Şevket Efendi1895 to 19016Memurofficial495 to 550Vidin
Salih Celalettin Efendi1896 to 19036Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)550 to 700Trabzon
Ahmet Nihalettin Efendi1892 to 18964Memurofficial500Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hafiz Salih Efendi1899 to 19023Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Omurtag (Osmanpazarı)
Mehmet Said Efendi1901/021Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)490Pazardzhik (Tatarpazarcığı)
Rüştü Efendi1897/981Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications1,000Istanbul (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.

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Beyoğlu1
Bozcada1
Dinar1
Kerpe1
Maltepe1
Yemen1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Beyoğlu2
Balıkesir1
Bitola (Manastır)1
Dinar1
Yemen1
Names, position and identifiers of Bozcaada
Place
Identifierl-85488a2768e31395
Spelling in the cataloguebozcaada
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceArchipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid)
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencelimni
PositionLatitude 39.835062, longitude 26.069306. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
BozcaadaEnglishPreferred nameEditor
BozcaadaTurkishPreferred nameEditor
TenedosOtherOther nameEditor
bozcaadaSpelling 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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