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Place

Birecik

Place in Aleppo (Halep) province. Present-day country: Turkey.

10 officials are recorded serving in Birecik, from 1867 to 1906 (AH 1284 to 1323), in 46 annual entries. The median of the 46 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1895/96 with 3 officials. 2 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
10
Annual entries1867 to 1906, AH 1284 to 1323
46
Year with most officials3 officials
1895/96
Median monthly salaryfrom 46 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
Officials born here
2
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1895/96 (AH 1313) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 25.
01231868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13203 in 1895/96Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Birecik
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1867/68 (AH 1284)111
1882/83 (AH 1300)222
1883/84 (AH 1301)202
1884/85 (AH 1302)202
1885/86 (AH 1303)202
1886/87 (AH 1304)202
1887/88 (AH 1305)212
1888/89 (AH 1306)202
1889/90 (AH 1307)202
1890/91 (AH 1308)202
1891/92 (AH 1309)202
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1893/94 (AH 1311)111
1894/95 (AH 1312)212
1895/96 (AH 1313)313
1896/97 (AH 1314)303
1897/98 (AH 1315)303
1898/99 (AH 1316)202
1899/1900 (AH 1317)212
1900/01 (AH 1318)202
1901/02 (AH 1319)202
1902/03 (AH 1320)111
1903/04 (AH 1321)101
1904/05 (AH 1322)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)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 46 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 434 kuruş.
02004006008001868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320700 kuruş in 1905/06Birecik, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Birecik
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1867/681400400400400600
1882/832333.5333.5237.75429.25500
1883/842333.5333.5237.75429.25500
1884/852333.5333.5237.75429.25500
1885/862333.5333.5237.75429.25500
1886/872333.5333.5237.75429.25500
1887/882325325237.5412.5500
1888/892325325237.5412.5500
1889/902325325237.5412.5500
1890/912325325237.5412.5500
1891/922325325237.5412.5500
1892/931600600600600500
1893/941600600600600500
1894/952600600600600500
1895/963600533.33500600500
1896/973540493.33470540500
1897/983540493.33470540500
1898/992470470435505500
1899/19002450450425475500
1900/012450450425475500
1901/022450450425475500
1902/031500500500500500
1903/041500500500500475
1904/051700700700700450
1905/061700700700700475

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

5 job titles on record. The most frequent is 3. Müdür, held by 4 officials.
3. Müdür4Muhabere Memuru32. Müdür2Başmuhabere Memuru1Musillik11868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201 official2 officials

The 5 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, Birecik
Year3. MüdürMuhabere Memuru2. MüdürBaşmuhabere MemuruMusillik
1867/681
1882/8311
1883/8411
1884/8511
1885/8611
1886/8711
1887/8811
1888/8911
1889/9011
1890/9111
1891/9211
1892/931
1893/941
1894/952
1895/9621
1896/9721
1897/9821
1898/9911
1899/190011
1900/0111
1901/0211
1902/031
1903/041
1904/051
1905/061

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 5 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) Office or region

Where the officials serving here were born
BirecikKahramanmaraş (Maraş)Aleppo (Halep)ArapgirBilanBosna2 officials1 official

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Beirut (Beyrut) (1), Diyarbakır (1), Istanbul (Dersaadet) (1), Kula (1), Misrata (1), Papazlik (1), Yarpuz (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

10 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

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

Officials of Birecik
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Osman Efendi1882 to 189210Musillik142 to 150Aleppo (Halep)
Mehmed Bahaeddin Efendi1895 to 19027Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Bilan
Mustafa Mümtaz Efendi1887 to 18936Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500 to 600Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)
Kadri Efendi1894 to 189953. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600Şanlıurfa (Urfa)
Mustafa Şevket Efendi1893 to 189853. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600Bosna
Neşet Agop Tokluyan Yakop Efendi1882 to 18875Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official525Arapgir
Ethem Pertev Efendi1899 to 190233. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Konya
Mahmut Avni Efendi1902 to 190533. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500 to 700Nablus
Esad Efendi1867/681Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Harput
Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301)1905/0612. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)700Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)

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. Ali Fehmi Efendi 1895 to 1910, Kula
  2. MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ 1908/09, Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Gaziantep (Antep)3
Belen1
Diyarbakır1
Muğla1
Raqqa (Rakka)1
Sazaz1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Aleppo (Halep)2
Raqqa (Rakka)2
Beirut (Beyrut)1
Elbistan1
Gümüşhane1
Siverek1
Names, position and identifiers of Birecik
Place
Identifierl-c868b36536a501fb
Spelling in the cataloguebirecik
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceAleppo (Halep) province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceurfa
PositionLatitude 37.024732, longitude 37.978034. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
BirecikEnglishPreferred nameEditor
BirecikTurkishPreferred nameEditor
BirecikSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
birecikSpelling 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: Bayındır (2022), 20 entries, 1 probably and 0 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Birecikli devlet memurları

ZEYNEP BAYINDIR (2022), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Birecikli).

Entries of Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Birecikli devlet memurları
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Mehmed Faik Efendi (DH.SAID 1/352)PDF 60, 61Named in the work only
Kasım Sıdkı Efendi (DH.SAID 8/178)PDF 61Named in the work only
Ahmed Nazif Efendi (DH.SAID 8/390)PDF 61, 62Named in the work only
Kasım Sıdkı Efendi (DH.SAID 10/432)PDF 62, 63Named in the work only
Hasan Halis Efendi (DH.SAID 47/7)PDF 63, 64, 65, 66Named in the work only
Mehmed ReĢid Efendi (DH.SAID 88/10)PDF 66, 67Named in the work only
Mehmed ġakir Efendi (DH.SAID 115/24)PDF 67Named in the work only
Abdülhamid Efendi (DH.SAID 128/98)PDF 67, 68, 69Named in the work only
Bekir Sıdkı Efendi (DH.SAID 132/124)PDF 69Named in the work only
Abraham Efendi (DH.SAID 139/96)PDF 69, 70Named in the work only
Emin Hikmet Efendi (DH.SAID 149/131)PDF 70Named in the work only
Hasan Halis Efendi (DH.SAID 150/69)PDF 70, 71, 72Named in the work only
Mehmed Bahaaddin Efendi (DH.SAID 152/158)PDF 72Named in the work only
Mehmed Zeki Efendi (DH.SAID 156/173)PDF 72, 73Probably MEHMET ZEKİ EFENDİ
Mehmed Nuri Bey (DH.SAID 163/178)PDF 73Named in the work only
Ahmet Nevres Efendi (DH.SAID 169/80)PDF 73, 74Named in the work only
Yusuf Ziya Efendi (DH.SAID 183/88)PDF 74, 75Named in the work only
Ali Rıza Efendi (DH.SAID 183/197)PDF 75Named in the work only

2 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.