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Giresun

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

29 officials are recorded serving in Giresun, from 1864 to 1910 (AH 1281 to 1327), in 81 annual entries. The median of the 81 recorded monthly salaries is 380 kuruş. The fullest year is 1892/93 with 4 officials. 9 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
29
Annual entries1864 to 1910, AH 1281 to 1327
81
Year with most officials4 officials
1892/93
Median monthly salaryfrom 81 recorded salaries
380 kuruş
Officials born here
9
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1892/93 (AH 1310) with 4 officials. Years with an annual entry: 43.
012341868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13254 in 1892/93Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Giresun
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1864/65 (AH 1281)111
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1870/71 (AH 1287)101
1871/72 (AH 1288)323
1872/73 (AH 1289)313
1873/74 (AH 1290)303
1874/75 (AH 1291)202
1875/76 (AH 1292)212
1876/77 (AH 1293)313
1877/78 (AH 1294)101
1878 (AH 1295)101
1878/79 (AH 1296)101
1879/80 (AH 1297)101
1880/81 (AH 1298)212
1881/82 (AH 1299)323
1882/83 (AH 1300)202
1883/84 (AH 1301)212
1884/85 (AH 1302)212
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)111
1888/89 (AH 1306)323
1889/90 (AH 1307)202
1890/91 (AH 1308)222
1891/92 (AH 1309)212
1892/93 (AH 1310)424
1893/94 (AH 1311)303
1894/95 (AH 1312)303
1895/96 (AH 1313)212
1896/97 (AH 1314)202
1897/98 (AH 1315)111
1898/99 (AH 1316)424
1899/1900 (AH 1317)313
1900/01 (AH 1318)313
1901/02 (AH 1319)202
1902/03 (AH 1320)101
1903/04 (AH 1321)101
1904/05 (AH 1322)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)111
1906/07 (AH 1324)101
1907/08 (AH 1325)101
1908/09 (AH 1326)111
1909/10 (AH 1327)111

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 81 recorded monthly salaries is 380 kuruş, the mean 441 kuruş.
02004006008001868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325300 kuruş in 1909/10Giresun, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Giresun
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1864/651300300300300625
1869/701800800800800600
1870/711800800800800600
1871/723380480340570550
1872/733380506.67380570550
1873/743600580490680500
1874/752570570475665535
1875/762530530415645530
1876/773400533.33400600575
1877/781400400400400560
18781400400400400600
1878/791400400400400600
1879/801380380380380500
1880/812315315282.5347.5500
1881/823600526.67490600500
1882/832490490435545500
1883/842490490435545500
1884/852490490435545500
1885/861380380380380500
1886/871380380380380500
1887/881380380380380500
1888/893380360340390500
1889/902350350325375500
1890/912490490435545500
1891/922490490435545500
1892/934450470395525500
1893/943500493.33440550500
1894/953500493.33440550500
1895/962450450375525500
1896/972490490465515500
1897/981300300300300500
1898/994275322.5237.5360500
1899/19003300363.33275420500
1900/013540443.33395540500
1901/022395395322.5467.5500
1902/031250250250250500
1903/041250250250250475
1904/051330330330330450
1905/061250250250250475
1906/071250250250250450
1907/081250250250250300
1908/091330330330330350
1909/101300300300300462.5

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

8 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 16 officials.
Muhabere Memuru16Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti53. Müdür3Posta Memuru3Aşar Memuru1Memur1Rusumat Sandik Emenati1Sef11868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13251 official3 officials

The 8 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, Giresun
YearMuhabere MemuruMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti3. MüdürPosta MemuruAşar MemuruMemurRusumat Sandik EmenatiSef
1864/651
1869/701
1870/711
1871/7221
1872/7321
1873/74111
1874/7511
1875/7611
1876/7721
1877/781
18781
1878/791
1879/801
1880/8111
1881/8221
1882/832
1883/842
1884/8511
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/8921
1889/9011
1890/9111
1891/9211
1892/9331
1893/9421
1894/9521
1895/9611
1896/9711
1897/981
1898/991111
1899/1900111
1900/01111
1901/0211
1902/031
1903/041
1904/051
1905/061
1906/071
1907/081
1908/091
1909/101

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 8 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
GiresunIstanbul (Dersaadet)TrabzonKütahyaTireboluAmasyaOryahovo (Rahova)Further places9 officials1 official

The 10 birthplaces with most officials, of 15, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Istanbul (Dersaadet)9
Trabzon5
Kütahya2
Tirebolu2
Amasya1
Arapgir1
Çorum1
Diyarbakır1
Kastamonu1
Kayseri1
Where the officials born here were serving
GiresunYozgatEskişehirRizeTrabzonAleppo (Halep)Kastoria (Kesriye)Further places3 officials1 official

The 10 places of service with most officials, of 14, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Yozgat3
Eskişehir2
Rize2
Trabzon2
Aleppo (Halep)1
Beirut (Beyrut)1
Beypazarı1
Elazığ1
İnebolu1
İskenderun1

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

29 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.
1291868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325Post 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

29 officials, the one with most annual entries here first. The first 25 are shown, the others are under them.

Officials of Giresun
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Lütfi Efendi1890 to 189983. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600Tirebolu
Mustafa Şakir Efendi1876 to 18838Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380 to 400Ürgüp
Yanko Filoklis Efendi1869 to 18778Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications760 to 800Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hüseyin Avni Efendi1898 to 19057Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications250 to 330Sivas
Mehmet Nuri Efendi1880 to 18975Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250 to 440Amasya
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1883 to 18895Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Rıza Efendi1881 to 18843Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)600Tokat
Mahmut İsmet Efendi1892 to 18953Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Trabzon
Mehmet Nuri Efendi1897 to 19003Posta Memurupostal official300Arapgir
Mehmet Rauf Efendi1872 to 18753Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Trabzon
Mehmet Tahir Efendi1905 to 19083Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Trabzon
Ahmet Rifat Efendi1888 to 18902Posta Memurupostal official300Çorum
Ali Mazlum Efendi1871 to 18732Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmed Sami Efendi1875 to 18772Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300 to 400Kütahya
Mehmet Nuri Efendi1900 to 190223. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Diyarbakır
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1864 to 18742Rusumat Sandik Emenati300 to 600Trabzon
Osman Nurettin Bey1899 to 19012Sef540Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Osman Nuri Efendi1888 to 18902Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Kastamonu
Ahmet Naili Efendi1871/721Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Tirebolu
Ahmet Şevket Efendi1895/961Posta Memurupostal official300Kütahya
Ali Mazhar Efendi1892/931Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Sami Efendi1898/991Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)200Ünye
İsmail Hakkı Efendi1891/921Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Oryahovo (Rahova)
Mehmet Cemal Efendi1884/8513. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Cemalettin Efendi1887/881Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
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Officials of Giresun, continued
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Fuat Efendi1890/911Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Trabzon
Mustafa Sadettin Efendi1909/101Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications300Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Parsah Zurniyan Efendi1881/821Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications600Kayseri
Unnamed official (0156_0146;289)1908/091Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)330Istanbul (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

9 officials of the collection were 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. Aziz Efendi 1886 to 1907, Yozgat
  2. Mehmet İhsan Efendi 1891 to 1905, Eskişehir
  3. Mehmet Fuat Efendi 1891 to 1905, Elazığ
  4. Salih Sıdkı Efendi 1903 to 1907, Yozgat
  5. Kirkor Efendi 1909 to 1911, Trabzon
  6. Mehmet Rifat Efendi 1905 to 1907, Trabzon
  7. Ali Rıza Efendi 1906/07, Kastoria (Kesriye)
  8. Mehmet Temel Efendi 1908/09, Rize
  9. Osman Sabri Efendi 1908/09, Rize

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Trabzon7
Samsun5
Tripoli (Trablusgarp)2
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)1
Antalya1
Batumi (Batum)1
Bulanık1
Kadıköy1
Kastamonu1
Mardin1

The 10 places with most officials, of 14.

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Trabzon6
Hopa2
Ordu2
Samsun2
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)1
Alexandroupoli (Dedeağaç)1
Kastamonu1
Kavala1
Latakia (Lazkiye)1
Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)1

The 10 places with most officials, of 14.

Names, position and identifiers of Giresun
Place
Identifierl-ac5e3040db31d1a3
Spelling in the cataloguegiresun
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceTrabzon province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceTrabzon
PositionLatitude 40.918158, longitude 38.392268. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
GiresunEnglishPreferred nameEditor
GiresunTurkishPreferred nameEditor
GiresunSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
giresunSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

Named in works about this place

One work of the source register covers people born in or from this place: Yadi (2014), 157 entries, 13 probably and 8 possibly officials of this collection. One work of the source register names this place in its title: Yılmaz (2019), 48 entries, 0 probably and 3 possibly officials of this collection.

Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

AHMET YADİ (2014), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Giresunlu).

Entries of Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Ali Rıza EfendiPDF 37, 38Probably Ali Rıza Efendi
Aziz EfendiPDF 40, 41Probably Aziz Efendi
Kirkor EfendiPDF 51, 52Probably Kirkor Efendi

154 more entries are onthe page of the work.

Osmanlı Devleti'nin son döneminde Giresun uleması (1879-1909)

HARUN YILMAZ (2019), Thesis. The title names this place (Giresun uleması). Scholars of Giresun.

Entries of Osmanlı Devleti'nin son döneminde Giresun uleması (1879-1909)
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Ali Rıza Efendi (Sağman) (1890-1966)PDF 48, 49, 50Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi; Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi
Ali Rıza EfendiPDF 50, 51, 52Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi; Possibly Ali Rıza Efendi
Osman Nuri EfendiPDF 70, 71Possibly Osman Nuri Efendi

45 more entries are onthe page of the work.

A probable or possible link is made by fixed rules from the name, the birthplace, the birth year and the archive reference. It is not confirmed.

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