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Place

Midyat

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

8 officials are recorded serving in Midyat, from 1878 to 1905 (AH 1295 to 1322), in 27 annual entries. The median of the 27 recorded monthly salaries is 400 kuruş. The fullest year is 1883/84 with 2 officials.

Officials serving
8
Annual entries1878 to 1905, AH 1295 to 1322
27
Year with most officials2 officials
1883/84
Median monthly salaryfrom 27 recorded salaries
400 kuruş
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1883/84 (AH 1301) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 25.
0121878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13202 in 1883/84Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Midyat
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1878 (AH 1295)111
1878/79 (AH 1296)101
1880/81 (AH 1298)111
1881/82 (AH 1299)101
1882/83 (AH 1300)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)212
1884/85 (AH 1302)101
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)101
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)111
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)111
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)101
1895/96 (AH 1313)101
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)101
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1902/03 (AH 1320)222
1903/04 (AH 1321)111
1904/05 (AH 1322)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 27 recorded monthly salaries is 400 kuruş, the mean 454 kuruş.
02004006008001878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320600 kuruş in 1904/05Midyat, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Midyat
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
18781300300300300600
1878/791300300300300600
1880/811400400400400500
1881/821400400400400500
1882/831400400400400500
1883/842400400400400500
1884/851400400400400500
1885/861400400400400500
1886/871400400400400500
1887/881400400400400500
1888/891400400400400500
1889/901400400400400500
1890/911400400400400500
1891/921450450450450500
1892/931450450450450500
1893/941450450450450500
1894/951450450450450500
1895/961450450450450500
1896/971500500500500500
1897/981500500500500500
1898/991500500500500500
1899/19001500500500500500
1902/032700700650750500
1903/041600600600600475
1904/051600600600600450

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 4 officials.
Muhabere Memuru43. Müdür2Mesalihi Kalemi1Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti11878/79AH 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 official2 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, Midyat
YearMuhabere Memuru3. MüdürMesalihi KalemiMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
18781
1878/791
1880/811
1881/821
1882/831
1883/842
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1902/0311
1903/041
1904/051

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)

Where the officials serving here were born
MidyatDiyarbakırElazığErzurumSivasTrabzon4 officials1 official

All 5 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Diyarbakır4
Elazığ1
Erzurum1
Sivas1
Trabzon1

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

8 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.
Mehmet Şekip EfendiMehmet Tahir EfendiAli Riza EfendiMigirdiç Râsim EfendiUnnamed official (0087_0095,…Abdulgafur Sufi EfendiOSMAN NURİ EFENDİZülfü Efendi1878/79AH 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 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

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

Officials of Midyat
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ali Riza Efendi1883 to 18896Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Diyarbakır
Mehmet Tahir Efendi1880 to 18844Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Diyarbakır
Mehmet Şekip Efendi1878 to 18792Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300Erzurum
Migirdiç Râsim Efendi1889 to 18912Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications400Diyarbakır
Zülfü Efendi1903 to 190523. Müdürdirector of the third grade600Elazığ
Abdulgafur Sufi Efendi1902/0313. Müdürdirector of the third grade600Diyarbakır
OSMAN NURİ EFENDİ1902/031Mesalihi Kalemi800Trabzon
Unnamed official (0087_0095, sayfa no:187.)1891 to 19009Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)450 to 500Sivas

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
Diyarbakır2
Ergani1
Siirt1
Suşehri1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Diyarbakır4
Batman1
Cizre1
Damascus (Şam)1
Ergani1
Names, position and identifiers of Midyat
Place
Identifierl-b36d0903aad6626c
Spelling in the cataloguemidyat
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceDiyarbakır province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencemardin
PositionLatitude 37.415709, longitude 41.374293. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
MidyatEnglishPreferred nameEditor
MidyatTurkishPreferred nameEditor
midyatSpelling 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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