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Place

Kibris

Place in Archipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid) province. Present-day country: Cyprus.

7 officials are recorded serving in Kibris, from 1845 to 1895 (AH 1261 to 1312), in 39 annual entries. The median of the 39 recorded monthly salaries is 350 kuruş. The fullest year is 1877/78 with 4 officials. 3 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
7
Annual entries1845 to 1895, AH 1261 to 1312
39
Year with most officials4 officials
1877/78
Median monthly salaryfrom 39 recorded salaries
350 kuruş
Officials born here
3
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1877/78 (AH 1294) with 4 officials. Years with an annual entry: 33.
012341848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13104 in 1877/78Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Kibris
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1845 (AH 1261)111
1845/46 (AH 1262)101
1846/47 (AH 1263)101
1847/48 (AH 1264)101
1848/49 (AH 1265)101
1849/50 (AH 1266)101
1850/51 (AH 1267)101
1851/52 (AH 1268)101
1852/53 (AH 1269)101
1870/71 (AH 1287)111
1871/72 (AH 1288)101
1872/73 (AH 1289)101
1873/74 (AH 1290)101
1874/75 (AH 1291)101
1875/76 (AH 1292)212
1876/77 (AH 1293)313
1877/78 (AH 1294)414
1878 (AH 1295)101
1878/79 (AH 1296)111
1881/82 (AH 1299)111
1882/83 (AH 1300)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)101
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)101
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)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 39 recorded monthly salaries is 350 kuruş, the mean 1,206 kuruş.
01,0002,0003,0001848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 1310450 kuruş in 1894/95Kibris, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Kibris
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
18451350350350350350
1845/461350350350350300
1846/471350350350350300
1847/481350350350350250
1848/491350350350350300
1849/501350350350350250
1850/511350350350350175
1851/521350350350350282.5
1852/531350350350350350
1870/7112,1002,1002,1002,100600
1871/7212,1002,1002,1002,100550
1872/7312,1002,1002,1002,100550
1873/7412,1002,1002,1002,100500
1874/7512,8502,8502,8502,850535
1875/7622,2502,2502,1252,375530
1876/7732,7502,7502,3753,125575
1877/7842,7502,7502,3753,125560
187812,5002,5002,5002,500600
1878/7911,2501,2501,2501,250600
1881/821300300300300500
1882/831350350350350500
1883/841350350350350500
1884/851350350350350500
1885/861350350350350500
1886/871350350350350500
1887/881350350350350500
1888/891350350350350500
1889/901350350350350500
1890/911350350350350500
1891/921350350350350500
1892/931450450450450500
1893/941450450450450500
1894/951450450450450500

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 Ticaret Mahkemesi Azasi, held by 2 officials.
Ticaret Mahkemesi Azasi22. Ticaret Mahkemesi Riyaseti1Asar Muduru1DH Mufettisi1Divan Kitabeti1Emlak Memuru1Muhabere Memuru1Rusumat Muduru11848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101 official2 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, Kibris
YearTicaret Mahkemesi Azasi2. Ticaret Mahkemesi RiyasetiAsar MuduruDH MufettisiDivan KitabetiEmlak MemuruMuhabere MemuruRusumat Muduru
18451
1845/461
1846/471
1847/481
1848/491
1849/501
1850/511
1851/521
1852/531
1870/711
1871/721
1872/731
1873/741
1874/751
1875/7611
1876/77111
1877/78211
18781
1878/791
1881/821
1882/831
1883/841
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1893/941
1894/951

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)

Where the officials serving here were born
KibrisIstanbul (Dersaadet)Beirut (Beyrut)ErzurumKahramanmaraş (Maraş)Volos (Golos)2 officials1 official

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Beirut (Beyrut) (2), Elassona (Alasonya) (1), Kastoria (Kesriye) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

7 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.
Cafer Sadik EfendiMuftuzade Mehmet Hilmi EfendiHuseyin sevki EfendiOsman Vafi EfendiKapril EfendiHaci sefik Efendiİskender Efendi1848/49AH 12651853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 1310Post 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

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

Officials of Kibris
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
İskender Efendi1881 to 189514Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)300 to 450Beirut (Beyrut)
Cafer Sadik Efendi1845 to 18539Emlak Memuru350Nicosia (Lefkoşa)
Muftuzade Mehmet Hilmi Efendi1870 to 18789Divan Kitabeti2,100 to 2,850Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)
Huseyin sevki Efendi1875 to 187832. Ticaret Mahkemesi Riyaseti2,000 to 3,000Volos (Golos)
Osman Vafi Efendi1876 to 18782DH Mufettisi3,500Erzurum
Haci sefik Efendi1878/791Rusumat Muduru1,250Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Kapril Efendi1877/781Ticaret Mahkemesi Azasi2,000Istanbul (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

3 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. Ahmet Muhsin Efendi 1903 to 1907, Elassona (Alasonya)
  2. Hanna Yanko Efendi 1894 to 1896, Beirut (Beyrut)
  3. Mühtedi Abid Efendi 1907/08, Beirut (Beyrut)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Crete (Girit)1
Ioannina (Yanya)1
Kosova1
Sofia (Sofya)1
Suriye1
Tuzla1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Istanbul (Dersaadet)3
Kuşadası1
Volos (Golos)1
Names, position and identifiers of Kibris
Place
Identifierl-b7aac4dad9ec7446
Spelling in the cataloguekibris
NameStored spelling, not confirmed
Kind of placeSeat of a sancak
ProvinceArchipelago (Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid)
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceKibris
PositionLatitude 35.178754, longitude 33.390625. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryCyprus
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
kibrisSpelling in the recordsPreferred nameAnnual records

Named in works about this place

One work of the source register covers people born in or from this place: Çelikkut (2019), 157 entries, 2 probably and 0 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Kıbrıslı devlet memurları (1879-1909)

EMİNE ÇELİKKUT (2019), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Kıbrıslı).

Entries of Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Kıbrıslı devlet memurları (1879-1909)
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Abdülnâfi EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Abdullah Nuri EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Abdülhak Hakkı BeyPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Cevdet EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Halim EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Hulusi BeyPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed MemiĢ EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Midhad EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Mümtaz EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Nafi EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Nazif EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Necib EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Nimetullah EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Nusret EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed Ragıb BeyPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Ahmed RaĢid EfendiPDF 38; printed 22Named in the work only
Mühtedi Abid EfendiPDF 39; printed 23Probably Mühtedi Abid Efendi
Hanna Yanko EfendiPDF 40; printed 24Probably Hanna Yanko Efendi

138 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.