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Place

Medina (Medine)

Place in Hejaz (Hicaz) province. Present-day country: Saudi Arabia.

14 officials are recorded serving in Medina (Medine), from 1884 to 1911 (AH 1302 to 1328), in 63 annual entries. The median of the 63 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş. The fullest year is 1901/02 with 6 officials. 2 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
14
Annual entries1884 to 1911, AH 1302 to 1328
63
Year with most officials6 officials
1901/02
Median monthly salaryfrom 63 recorded salaries
540 kuruş
Officials born here
2
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1901/02 (AH 1319) with 6 officials. Years with an annual entry: 25.
02461887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 13256 in 1901/02Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Medina (Medine)
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
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)202
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)202
1892/93 (AH 1310)202
1893/94 (AH 1311)202
1894/95 (AH 1312)202
1895/96 (AH 1313)202
1896/97 (AH 1314)202
1897/98 (AH 1315)202
1898/99 (AH 1316)202
1899/1900 (AH 1317)323
1900/01 (AH 1318)414
1901/02 (AH 1319)626
1902/03 (AH 1320)606
1903/04 (AH 1321)515
1904/05 (AH 1322)646
1905/06 (AH 1323)303
1906/07 (AH 1324)212
1907/08 (AH 1325)101
1910/11 (AH 1328)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 63 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş, the mean 610 kuruş.
02004006008001,0001,2001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201907/08AH 1325Median 800 kuruş in 1904/05Medina (Medine), 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, Medina (Medine)
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1884/851500500500500500
1885/861500500500500500
1886/871500500500500500
1887/881500500500500500
1888/892325325237.5412.5500
1889/902325325237.5412.5500
1890/912325325237.5412.5500
1891/922325325237.5412.5500
1892/932325325237.5412.5500
1893/942375375262.5487.5500
1894/952375375262.5487.5500
1895/962375375262.5487.5500
1896/972370370285455500
1897/982370370285455500
1898/992370370285455500
1899/19003540530395670500
1900/014670597.5467.5800500
1901/0268001,0656051,325500
1902/036670706.67397.5800500
1903/045540530350800475
1904/056800666.67605800450
1905/063800786.674301,150475
1906/0721,5001,5001,5001,500450
1907/0811,5001,5001,5001,500300
1910/111600600600600500

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

9 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 6 officials.
Muhabere Memuru61. Müdür2Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti2Müdür Vekili1Müfettiş1Mukayyit1Muvakkat Memuru1Müvezzi11884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 13261910/11AH 13281 official4 officials

The 8 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

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Officials by job title and year, Medina (Medine)
YearMuhabere Memuru1. MüdürMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuriyetiMüdür VekiliMüfettişMukayyitMuvakkat MemuruMüvezzi
1884/85
1885/86
1886/87
1887/88
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/190011
1900/0121
1901/022111
1902/032111
1903/04211
1904/0541
1905/0621
1906/0711
1907/081
1910/111

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 9 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
Medina (Medine)Istanbul (Dersaadet)ArapgirArta (Narda)BilecikBursa5 officials1 official

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Edirne (1), Istanbul (Dersaadet) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

14 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.
Abdullah Fikri EfendiHüseyin Hüsnü EfendiMustafa Faik Efendiİsmail Hıfzı EfendiHacı Mehmet Arif EfendiOsman Nuri EfendiHasan Sezai EfendiMehmet Muhittin EfendiAhmet Fuat EfendiMehmet Galip EfendiAhmet EfendiUnnamed official (0067_00229;…Mustafa Naili EfendiMehmet Sadettin Efendi1884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241908/09AH 13261910/11AH 1328Post 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

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

Officials of Medina (Medine)
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Abdullah Fikri Efendi1884 to 190521Posta Memurupostal official500 to 600Bilecik
Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi1888 to 190413Müvezzideliverer (postman)150 to 350Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İsmail Hıfzı Efendi1899 to 19045Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications800 to 900Kemah
Hacı Mehmet Arif Efendi1900 to 19044Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Bursa
Mustafa Faik Efendi1899 to 19034Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Diyarbakır
Mehmet Muhittin Efendi1903 to 19063Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)60Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Efendi1904 to 19062Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Trabzon
Hasan Sezai Efendi1901 to 190321. Müdürfirst director (a grade of office head)1,500Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Fuat Efendi1904/051Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Galip Efendi1904/051Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)800Gülşehir (Arapsun)
Mehmet Sadettin Efendi1910/111Muvakkat Memuru600Damascus (Şam)
Mustafa Naili Efendi1906/0711. Müdürfirst director (a grade of office head)1,500Arta (Narda)
Osman Nuri Efendi1901/021Müfettişinspector2,500Arapgir
Unnamed official (0067_00229; sayfa no:455-456)1904 to 19084Müdür Vekiliacting director1,000 to 1,500Istanbul (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

2 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. Ömer Mustafa Bey 1876 to 1885, Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  2. Ali Salim Efendi 1908/09, Edirne

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Aydın1
Bilecik1
Birul cedid1
Hicaz1
Jeddah (Cidde)1
Konya1
Suq al-Shuyukh (Sukuşşuyuh)1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Jeddah (Cidde)2
Ankara1
Bilecik1
Bursa1
Erbil1
Hicaz1
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
Konya1
Preveza (Preveze)1
Trabzon1
Names, position and identifiers of Medina (Medine)
Place
Identifierl-afe8313a1e09a010
Spelling in the cataloguemedine
NameName matched
Kind of placeSeat of a sancak
ProvinceHejaz (Hicaz)
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceMedine
PositionLatitude 24.47201, longitude 39.610004. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countrySaudi Arabia
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
MedinaEnglishPreferred nameEditor
MedineTurkishPreferred nameEditor
MedineSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
medineSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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