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Place

Karamürsel

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

12 officials are recorded serving in Karamürsel, from 1877 to 1905 (AH 1294 to 1322), in 35 annual entries. The median of the 35 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1895/96 with 5 officials. 1 official of the collection was born here.

Officials serving
12
Annual entries1877 to 1905, AH 1294 to 1322
35
Year with most officials5 officials
1895/96
Median monthly salaryfrom 35 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
Officials born here
1
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1895/96 (AH 1313) with 5 officials. Years with an annual entry: 18.
0123451878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13205 in 1895/96Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Karamürsel
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1877/78 (AH 1294)111
1888/89 (AH 1306)111
1889/90 (AH 1307)101
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)212
1895/96 (AH 1313)535
1896/97 (AH 1314)303
1897/98 (AH 1315)303
1898/99 (AH 1316)313
1899/1900 (AH 1317)212
1900/01 (AH 1318)202
1901/02 (AH 1319)212
1902/03 (AH 1320)202
1903/04 (AH 1321)212
1904/05 (AH 1322)222

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 35 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 460 kuruş.
01002003004005001878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320Median 400 kuruş in 1895/96Karamürsel, median of years with 5 or more salariesMean of the same yearsWhole collectionFewer than 5 salaries, not joined to the lineAbove the scale

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Karamürsel
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1877/781100100100100560
1888/891540540540540500
1889/901540540540540500
1890/911540540540540500
1891/921540540540540500
1892/931540540540540500
1893/941540540540540500
1894/952460460420500500
1895/965400464400540500
1896/973540486.67460540500
1897/983540486.67460540500
1898/993400440390470500
1899/19002460460420500500
1900/012460460420500500
1901/022400400350450500
1902/032400400350450500
1903/042400400350450475
1904/052520520510530450

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 7 officials.
Muhabere Memuru73. Müdür4Fabrika Memuru1Kaymakam Muavini11877/78AH 12941878/79AH 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 13221 official3 officials

The 4 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, Karamürsel
YearMuhabere Memuru3. MüdürFabrika MemuruKaymakam Muavini
1877/781
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/9511
1895/9632
1896/9712
1897/9812
1898/9921
1899/190011
1900/0111
1901/0211
1902/0311
1903/0411
1904/0511

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) Other place

Where the officials serving here were born
KaramürselIstanbul (Dersaadet)AdapazarıConstanța (Köstence)ElazığIzmir (İzmir)4 officials1 official

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

All 8 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Istanbul (Dersaadet)4
Adapazarı2
Cerkezistan1no position recorded
Constanța (Köstence)1
Elazığ1
Izmir (İzmir)1
İzmit1
Yozgat1

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Çanakkale (1), Damascus (Şam) (1), Mudawwara (Müdevvere) (1), Yalova (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

12 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.
Hasan Cemal EfendiMehmet Sadık EfendiMehmet Niyazi EfendiMehmet Mazlum EfendiMehmet Rüştü EfendiAli Rıza EfendiRıfat EfendiHüseyin Tıynet Efendiİbrahim Refet EfendiHüseyin Hurşit EfendiHüseyin Hayri EfendiMisak Efendi1877/78AH 12941878/79AH 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 1322Post 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

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

Officials of Karamürsel
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Sadık Efendi1888 to 1901133. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Adapazarı
Mehmet Niyazi Efendi1894 to 19048Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380 to 500Izmir (İzmir)
Ali Rıza Efendi1895 to 189833. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600İzmit
Hüseyin Tıynet Efendi1899 to 19012Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İbrahim Refet Efendi1901 to 19032Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Cemal Efendi1877/781Fabrika Memurufactory official100Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hüseyin Hayri Efendi1904/0513. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Adapazarı
Hüseyin Hurşit Efendi1903/041Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Cerkezistan
Mehmet Mazlum Efendi1895/961Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Constanța (Köstence)
Mehmet Rüştü Efendi1895/961Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Elazığ
Misak Efendi1904/051Kaymakam Muavini540Yozgat
Rıfat Efendi1898/991Muhabere 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. Mehmet Zihni Efendi 1897 to 1907, Çanakkale

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Adapazarı3
İzmit2
Biga1
Geyve1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Izmir (İzmir)1
Leskovik1
Mudanya1
Names, position and identifiers of Karamürsel
Place
Identifierl-9e675b7c3b283910
Spelling in the cataloguekaramursel
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
Provinceİzmit province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceizmit
PositionLatitude 40.691538, longitude 29.61077. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KaramürselEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KaramürselTurkishPreferred nameEditor
KaramurselSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
karamurselSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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