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Place

Hillah (Hille)

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

19 officials are recorded serving in Hillah (Hille), from 1869 to 1908 (AH 1286 to 1325), in 59 annual entries. The median of the 59 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1906/07 with 5 officials. 3 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
19
Annual entries1869 to 1908, AH 1286 to 1325
59
Year with most officials5 officials
1906/07
Median monthly salaryfrom 59 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
Officials born here
3
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1906/07 (AH 1324) with 5 officials. Years with an annual entry: 35.
0123451873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13255 in 1906/07Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Hillah (Hille)
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1870/71 (AH 1287)101
1872/73 (AH 1289)222
1873/74 (AH 1290)111
1874/75 (AH 1291)101
1875/76 (AH 1292)101
1876/77 (AH 1293)111
1877/78 (AH 1294)101
1879/80 (AH 1297)101
1880/81 (AH 1298)202
1881/82 (AH 1299)202
1882/83 (AH 1300)212
1884/85 (AH 1302)222
1885/86 (AH 1303)202
1886/87 (AH 1304)202
1887/88 (AH 1305)202
1888/89 (AH 1306)212
1889/90 (AH 1307)202
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)111
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)222
1898/99 (AH 1316)202
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1900/01 (AH 1318)212
1901/02 (AH 1319)202
1902/03 (AH 1320)202
1903/04 (AH 1321)202
1904/05 (AH 1322)313
1905/06 (AH 1323)212
1906/07 (AH 1324)545
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 500 kuruş, the mean 561 kuruş.
01002003004005001873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325Median 475 kuruş in 1906/07Hillah (Hille), median of years with 5 or more salariesMean of the same yearsWhole collectionFewer than 5 salaries, not joined to the lineAbove the scale

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Hillah (Hille)
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1869/701800800800800600
1870/711800800800800600
1872/732430430405455550
1873/741500500500500500
1874/751500500500500535
1875/761500500500500530
1876/771500500500500575
1877/781500500500500560
1879/801380380380380500
1880/812637.5637.5556.25718.75500
1881/822637.5637.5556.25718.75500
1882/832635635552.5717.5500
1884/852520520380660500
1885/862520520380660500
1886/872520520380660500
1887/882520520380660500
1888/892637.5637.5556.25718.75500
1889/902637.5637.5556.25718.75500
1890/912637.5637.5556.25718.75500
1891/921800800800800500
1892/931800800800800500
1893/941800800800800500
1895/961475475475475500
1896/971475475475475500
1897/982579.5579.5527.25631.75500
1898/992579.5579.5527.25631.75500
1899/19001475475475475500
1900/012687.5687.5581.25793.75500
1901/022687.5687.5581.25793.75500
1902/032687.5687.5581.25793.75500
1903/042687.5687.5581.25793.75475
1904/053475485277.5687.5450
1905/062387.5387.5253.75521.25475
1906/075475386.4237500450
1907/081120120120120300

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 12 officials.
Muhabere Memuru122. Müdür5Başmuhabere Memuru2Asar 2. Kitabeti11873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13251 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, Hillah (Hille)
YearMuhabere Memuru2. MüdürBaşmuhabere MemuruAsar 2. Kitabeti
1869/701
1870/711
1872/732
1873/741
1874/751
1875/761
1876/771
1877/781
1879/801
1880/8111
1881/8211
1882/8311
1884/8511
1885/8611
1886/8711
1887/8811
1888/8911
1889/9011
1890/9111
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1895/961
1896/971
1897/9811
1898/9911
1899/19001
1900/0111
1901/0211
1902/0311
1903/0411
1904/0521
1905/0611
1906/0732
1907/081

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
Hillah (Hille)1 born hereBaghdad (Bağdat)Kirkuk (Kerkük)Aleppo (Halep)Artvin (Livane)Çemişgezek10 officials1 official

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Al Diwaniyah (Divaniye) (1), Baghdad (Bağdat) (1), Basra (1), Diyarbakır (1), Hillah (Hille) (1), Kirkuk (Kerkük) (1), Manisa (1), Mosul (Musul) (1), Necid (1), Rhodes (Rodos) (1), Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

19 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

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

Officials of Hillah (Hille)
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Şerif Efendi1884 to 1894102. Müdürdirector of the second grade800Erzurum
İsmail Hakkı Efendi1873 to 18826Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380 to 500Kirkuk (Kerkük)
Abdulhamit Efendi1869 to 188352. Müdürdirector of the second grade800Baghdad (Bağdat)
Hasan Efendi1900 to 190552. Müdürdirector of the second grade900Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ahmet Mazhar Efendi1904 to 19084Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)80 to 120Hillah (Hille)
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1884 to 18884Asar 2. Kitabeti240Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Nuri Efendi1888 to 18913Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)475Baghdad (Bağdat)
Ahmet Tevfik Efendi1876 to 18782Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Artvin (Livane)
Mehmet Necip Efendi1895 to 18972Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)475Erbil
Mehmet Vahit Efendi1897 to 189922. Müdürdirector of the second grade684Aleppo (Halep)
Abdülbaki Efendi1882/831Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)470Baghdad (Bağdat)
Bekir Feyzi Efendi1872/731Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)480Çemişgezek
İbrahim Sabri Efendi1872/731Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Ruhi Efendi1906/071Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official600Kirkuk (Kerkük)
Mehmet Sait Efendi1906/071Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Salih Efendi1905/0612. Müdürdirector of the second grade655Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mühtedi Mehmet Nuri Efendi1906/071Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)237Baghdad (Bağdat)
Unnamed official (0087_0093, sayfa no:183.)1897 to 19058Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)475Elbistan
Unnamed official (121-111-217)1906/071Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official475Baghdad (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.

Officials born here

3 officials of the collection were born here. 1 of them is also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Ali Saib Bey 1877 to 1904, Basra
  2. Abdullah Efendi 1896 to 1906, Baghdad (Bağdat)
  3. Ahmet Mazhar Efendi 1904 to 1909, Hillah (Hille)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Names, position and identifiers of Hillah (Hille)
Place
Identifierl-a266ec06edd0afd9
Spelling in the cataloguehille
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceBaghdad (Bağdat) province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencedivaniye
PositionLatitude 32.479065, longitude 44.427457. Reference position
Present-day countryIraq
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
HillahEnglishPreferred nameEditor
HilleTurkishPreferred nameEditor
HilleSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
hilleSpelling 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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