Place

Suriye

Office or region in Syria (Suriye) province. Present-day country: Syria.

The records store Suriye as a place. It is an office or a region, not a town. 45 officials are recorded serving in Suriye, from 1867 to 1911 (AH 1284 to 1329), in 194 annual entries. The median of the 194 recorded monthly salaries is 900 kuruş. The fullest year is 1887/88 with 8 officials. 1 official of the collection was born here.

Officials serving: 45
Annual entries1867 to 1911, AH 1284 to 1329: 194
Year with most officials8 officials: 1887/88
Median monthly salaryfrom 194 recorded salaries: 900 kuruş
Officials born here: 1

All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1887/88 (AH 1305) with 8 officials. Years with an annual entry: 45.

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Officials on record each year, Suriye
Year	Officials on record	First recorded	Annual entries
1867/68 (AH 1284)	1	1	1
1868/69 (AH 1285)	2	1	2
1869/70 (AH 1286)	2	0	2
1870/71 (AH 1287)	3	1	3
1871/72 (AH 1288)	2	1	2
1872/73 (AH 1289)	1	1	1
1873/74 (AH 1290)	2	1	2
1874/75 (AH 1291)	1	0	1
1875/76 (AH 1292)	2	1	2
1876/77 (AH 1293)	3	1	3
1877/78 (AH 1294)	3	0	3
1878 (AH 1295)	4	1	4
1878/79 (AH 1296)	5	2	5
1879/80 (AH 1297)	5	0	5
1880/81 (AH 1298)	6	2	6
1881/82 (AH 1299)	5	0	5
1882/83 (AH 1300)	2	0	2
1883/84 (AH 1301)	5	2	5
1884/85 (AH 1302)	6	1	6
1885/86 (AH 1303)	6	0	6
1886/87 (AH 1304)	7	1	7
1887/88 (AH 1305)	8	1	8
1888/89 (AH 1306)	6	2	6
1889/90 (AH 1307)	7	1	7
1890/91 (AH 1308)	7	0	7
1891/92 (AH 1309)	7	1	7
1892/93 (AH 1310)	8	2	8
1893/94 (AH 1311)	7	1	7
1894/95 (AH 1312)	4	0	4
1895/96 (AH 1313)	3	0	3
1896/97 (AH 1314)	3	0	3
1897/98 (AH 1315)	3	0	3
1898/99 (AH 1316)	4	0	4
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	3	0	3
1900/01 (AH 1318)	5	2	5
1901/02 (AH 1319)	5	2	5
1902/03 (AH 1320)	6	2	6
1903/04 (AH 1321)	7	3	7
1904/05 (AH 1322)	6	2	6
1905/06 (AH 1323)	8	4	8
1906/07 (AH 1324)	6	2	6
1907/08 (AH 1325)	2	0	2
1908/09 (AH 1326)	4	2	4
1909/10 (AH 1327)	1	0	1
1911 (AH 1329)	1	1	1

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 194 recorded monthly salaries is 900 kuruş, the mean 1,260 kuruş.

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Suriye
Year	Recorded salaries	Median	Mean	Lower quartile	Upper quartile	Median of the whole collection
1867/68	1	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	600
1868/69	2	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	600
1869/70	2	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	600
1870/71	3	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	600
1871/72	2	2,500	2,500	2,250	2,750	550
1872/73	1	1,750	1,750	1,750	1,750	550
1873/74	2	1,375	1,375	1,187.5	1,562.5	500
1874/75	1	1,750	1,750	1,750	1,750	535
1875/76	2	2,250	2,250	2,000	2,500	530
1876/77	3	1,750	1,616.67	1,175	2,125	575
1877/78	3	1,750	1,616.67	1,175	2,125	560
1878	4	2,125	2,087.5	1,462.5	2,750	600
1878/79	5	2,500	2,200	600	3,500	600
1879/80	5	2,000	1,754	570	2,800	500
1880/81	6	1,300	1,395	577.5	2,000	500
1881/82	5	2,000	1,634	570	2,400	500
1882/83	2	450	450	425	475	500
1883/84	5	1,200	1,220	500	1,200	500
1884/85	6	1,200	1,333.33	675	1,800	500
1885/86	6	1,200	1,333.33	675	1,800	500
1886/87	7	1,200	1,571.43	850	2,400	500
1887/88	8	1,350	1,562.5	1,025	2,200	500
1888/89	6	750	833.33	550	1,100	500
1889/90	7	700	785.71	500	1,000	500
1890/91	7	700	785.71	500	1,000	500
1891/92	7	1,100	1,228.57	500	1,350	500
1892/93	8	850	1,162.5	450	1,562.5	500
1893/94	7	1,200	1,450	400	2,300	500
1894/95	4	900	1,175	550	1,525	500
1895/96	3	1,200	1,433.33	900	1,850	500
1896/97	3	1,080	1,290	810	1,665	500
1897/98	3	1,080	1,290	810	1,665	500
1898/99	4	840	1,117.5	585	1,372.5	500
1899/1900	3	600	780	570	900	500
1900/01	5	800	788	600	800	500
1901/02	5	600	723	540	800	500
1902/03	6	700	731.67	555	950	500
1903/04	7	700	721.43	550	900	475
1904/05	6	550	575	500	750	450
1905/06	8	500	1,011.25	387.5	605	475
1906/07	6	650	1,600	500	2,225	450
1907/08	2	575	575	462.5	687.5	300
1908/09	4	650	750	462.5	937.5	350
1909/10	1	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	462.5
1911	1	400	400	400	400	500

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

24 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 8 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, Suriye
Year	Muhabere Memuru	Müfettiş	Başmüdür Kitabeti	Seyyar Memur	Başmüdür	Müfettiş Muavini	2. Müdür	Başmemur
1867/68		1
1868/69		1
1869/70		1
1870/71		1						1
1871/72		2
1872/73		1
1873/74		1
1874/75		1
1875/76		2
1876/77		1	1		1
1877/78		1	1		1
1878		1	1		1
1878/79			1		1
1879/80			1		1
1880/81		1	1		1			1
1881/82		1	1		1
1882/83	1
1883/84	1					2
1884/85	1	1				2
1885/86	1	1				2
1886/87	1	1			1	2
1887/88	1	1			1	2
1888/89	1		2			1
1889/90	1		3			1
1890/91	1		3			1
1891/92	1		2			1
1892/93	1		1			1
1893/94			1			1
1894/95			1			1
1895/96			1			1
1896/97			1			1
1897/98			1			1
1898/99			1			1
1899/1900			1			1
1900/01	1		1	1		1
1901/02	1		1	1		1
1902/03	1		1	1		1	1
1903/04	1		2	1		1	1
1904/05	2		1	2
1905/06	4			2	1
1906/07	2			1	1
1907/08	1			1
1908/09	1			2
1909/10		1
1911	1

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 24 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

The 10 birthplaces with most officials, of 22, all years
Place	Officials	Remark
Istanbul (Dersaadet)	16
Damascus (Şam)	4
Aleppo (Halep)	2
Harput	2
Kemaliye (Eğin)	2
Sidon (Sayda)	2
Van	2
Baghdad (Bağdat)	1
Burdur	1
Çatalca	1

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Damascus (Şam) (1), Hasbaya (Hasbeya) (1), Rashaya (Raşeya) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

45 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

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

Officials of Suriye
Official	Years here	Annual entries	Main title here	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Mustafa Cudi Efendi	1883 to 1903	20	Müfettiş Muaviniassistant inspector	1,080 to 1,200	Harput
Yosef Sava Efendi	1876 to 1893	18	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	500 to 600	Deir al-Qamar (Deyrülkamer)
Kamil Hakki Efendi	1878 to 1895	17	Çavuşsergeant (a lower service grade)	300 to 400	Damascus (Şam)
İbrahim Ethem Efendi	1889 to 1904	15	Başmüdür Kitabeticlerkship of the chief director's office	500 to 700	Ruse (Rusçuk)
Osman Vafi Efendi	1878 to 1888	10	DH Mufettisi	2,800 to 3,500	Erzurum
Emil Efendi	1875 to 1882	8	Başmüdürchief director	2,000 to 2,750	Aleppo (Halep)
Mehmet Nurettin Efendi	1901 to 1909	8	Seyyar Memurtravelling postal official	800	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Hakkı Efendi	1880 to 1905	8	Posta Memurupostal official	600	Damascus (Şam)
Abdürrahim Efendi	1872 to 1878	7	Müfettişinspector	1,750	Sidon (Sayda)
Ali Riza Efendi	1887 to 1893	6	Başkomiserchief police commissioner	1,500	Kütahya
Mehmet Nafiz Efendi	1893 to 1899	6	DH Muduru	2,250 to 2,500	Burdur
Ahmet Rüştü Efendi	1883 to 1888	5	Müfettiş Muaviniassistant inspector	1,200	Mudurnu
Jory Raymon Efendi	1867 to 1872	5	Müfettişinspector	2,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Esir Efendi	1888 to 1910	5	Başmüdür Kitabeticlerkship of the chief director's office	800 to 1,500	Cebeli lubnan
Ahmet Tevfik Efendi	1905 to 1909	4	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	350	Damascus (Şam)
Hüseyin Fehmi Efendi	1902 to 1906	4	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	250	Çatalca
Mahmut Hilmi Efendi	1884 to 1888	4	Müfettişinspector	2,000	Kemaliye (Eğin)
Haci Mehmet Sezayi Bey	1868 to 1871	3	DH Mudur Muavini	2,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hafiz Mehmet Rustu Efendi	1891 to 1894	3	Istinaf Mahkemesi Riyaseti	3,500	Gaza (Gazze)
Hüseyin Kadri Efendi	1903 to 1906	3	Makine Memurumachine official	500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ömer Fevzi Efendi	1888 to 1891	3	Başmüdür Kitabeticlerkship of the chief director's office	700	Kemaliye (Eğin)
Selim Efendi	1904 to 1907	3	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	500	Damascus (Şam)
Ahmet İsmet Efendi	1878 to 1880	2	Istinaf Mahkemesi	3,000 to 4,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Rıza Efendi	1892 to 1894	2	Meclis Baskitabeti	1,750 to 2,100	Tokat
Ali Rıza Efendi	1905 to 1907	2	Başmüdürchief director	4,750	Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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Officials of Suriye, continued
Official	Years here	Annual entries	Main title here	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Mehmed Raşid Efendi	1880 to 1882	2	Müfettişinspector	2,000	Tekirdağ
Yanko Makridi Efendi	1886 to 1888	2	Başmüdürchief director	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Şevket Efendi	1905/06	1	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	540	Thessaloniki (Selanik)
Cafer Sadık Efendi	1906/07	1	Sandık Emaneticustody of the cash chest	500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hacı Mahmut Rifat Efendi	1871/72	1	Müfettişinspector	3,000	Aleppo (Halep)
Hacı Süleyman Efendi	1904/05	1	Seyyar Memurtravelling postal official	800	Çemişgezek
Hasan Rıza Efendi	1911	1	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	400	Sidon (Sayda)
Mehmet Adil Efendi	1905/06	1	Seyyar Memurtravelling postal official	400	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Rauf Efendi	1903/04	1	2. Müdürdirector of the second grade	1,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Selim Efendi	1901/02	1	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	475	Hama
Mehmet Servet Efendi	1908/09	1	Polis Muduru	1,350	Van
Mehmet Talat Bey	1903/04	1	Müfettiş Muaviniassistant inspector	1,200	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Musa Kazim Efendi	1906/07	1	Istinaf Mahkemesi Muddei Umumi	2,700	Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mustafa Tevfik Efendi	1873/74	1	Kitabet Memuru	1,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Nikola Vitalis Efendi	1870/71	1	Başmemurchief official	2,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Vahram Şalcıyan Efendi	1900/01	1	Seyyar Memurtravelling postal official	800	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Yusuf Kenan Efendi	1900/01	1	Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)	800	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Yusuf Ziya Efendi	1902/03	1	2. Müdürdirector of the second grade	1,000	Van
Unnamed official (0067_0238; sayfa no:473)	1892 to 1894	2	Posta Memurupostal official	50	Harput
Unnamed official (0156_0145;287)	1908/09	1	Seyyar Memurtravelling postal official	500	Istanbul (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.

Mahmut Efendi 1891 to 1906, Damascus (Şam)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
Place	Officials
Beirut (Beyrut)	4
Istanbul (Dersaadet)	4
Ioannina (Yanya)	2
Aleppo (Halep)	1
Beyoğlu	1
Damascus (Şam)	1
Diyarbakır	1
Edirne	1
Elassona (Alasonya)	1
Elazığ	1

The 10 places with most officials, of 18.

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
Place	Officials
Istanbul (Dersaadet)	6
Beirut (Beyrut)	4
Damascus (Şam)	4
Konya	3
Aleppo (Halep)	2
Jerusalem (Kudüs)	2
Thessaloniki (Selanik)	2
Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)	1
Baghdad (Bağdat)	1
Basra	1

The 10 places with most officials, of 21.

Names, position and identifiers of Suriye

Place
Identifier	l-b43e86d119eba77a
Spelling in the catalogue	suriye
Name	Stored spelling, not confirmed
Kind of place	Office or region
Province	Syria (Suriye)
How the province was chosen	the administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative reference	Sam
Position	Latitude 33.518547, longitude 36.290705. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day country	Syria

Names
Name	Language	Kind of name	Source
suriye	Spelling in the records	Preferred name	Annual records
Suriye	Spelling in the records	Other name	Annual records

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

Subjects

Suriye
Syria (Suriye) province
Ottoman geography (Osmanlı coğrafyası)
Provincial administration (taşra teşkilatı)
Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)

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Subjects

Officials on record each year

Monthly salary each year

Jobs each year

Birthplaces and places of service

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

Ottoman officials recorded here

Officials born here

Where the same officials are also recorded