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Place

Batumi (Batum)

Place in Trabzon province. Present-day country: Georgia.

13 officials are recorded serving in Batumi (Batum), from 1867 to 1878 (AH 1284 to 1295), in 18 annual entries. The median of the 18 recorded monthly salaries is 750 kuruş. The fullest year is 1876/77 with 3 officials. 5 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
13
Annual entries1867 to 1878, AH 1284 to 1295
18
Year with most officials3 officials
1876/77
Median monthly salaryfrom 18 recorded salaries
750 kuruş
Officials born here
5
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1876/77 (AH 1293) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 10.
01231867/68AH 12841868/69AH 12851869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 12891873/74AH 12901874/75AH 12911875/76AH 12921876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 12953 in 1876/77Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Batumi (Batum)
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1867/68 (AH 1284)222
1868/69 (AH 1285)111
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1872/73 (AH 1289)111
1873/74 (AH 1290)111
1874/75 (AH 1291)222
1875/76 (AH 1292)212
1876/77 (AH 1293)323
1877/78 (AH 1294)313
1878 (AH 1295)212

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.

Jobs each year

4 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 6 officials.
Muhabere Memuru62. Müdür5Memur1Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti11867/68AH 12841868/69AH 12851869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 12891873/74AH 12901874/75AH 12911875/76AH 12921876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 12951 official3 officials

The 4 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, Batumi (Batum)
YearMuhabere Memuru2. MüdürMemurMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
1867/682
1868/691
1869/701
1872/731
1873/741
1874/7511
1875/762
1876/773
1877/7821
187811

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

Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak District (kaza) Other place

Where the officials serving here were born

No position is recorded for Batumi (Batum), so no map is drawn.

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Istanbul (Dersaadet) (2), Edirne (1), Erzurum (1), Pasinler (Hasankale) (1), Thessaloniki (Selanik) (1), Timurtas (1), Tripoli (Trablusgarp) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

13 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.
Ahmet Rifat EfendiKasım Tevfik EfendiAhmet Raif EfendiAbdullah Zeki EfendiHasan Hüsnü EfendiAli Rıza EfendiAli Rıza EfendiAhmet Recai EfendiMehmet Cemalettin EfendiÖmer Nuri EfendiTayyar EfendiYanko Filoklis EfendiAbdüllatif Efendi1867/68AH 12841868/69AH 12851869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 12891873/74AH 12901874/75AH 12911875/76AH 12921876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 1295Post 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

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

Officials of Batumi (Batum)
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Cemalettin Efendi1875 to 18783Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)730Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Tayyar Efendi1876 to 18783Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)750Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Recai Efendi1874 to 18762Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Bursa
Abdullah Zeki Efendi1869/701Memurofficial800Kemaliye (Eğin)
Abdüllatif Efendi187812. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,000Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Raif Efendi1868/691Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Trabzon
Ahmet Rifat Efendi1867/6812. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,000Sivas
Ali Rıza Efendi1873/741Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Rıza Efendi1874/7512. Müdürdirector of the second grade910Omurtag (Osmanpazarı)
Hasan Hüsnü Efendi1872/7312. Müdürdirector of the second grade855Trabzon
Kasım Tevfik Efendi1867/6812. Müdürdirector of the second grade800Sidon (Sayda)
Ömer Nuri Efendi1876/771Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Sivas
Yanko Filoklis Efendi1877/781Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyetipost of official for foreign communications800Istanbul (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

5 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. İskender Efendi 1898 to 1907, Erzurum
  2. Osman Nuri Efendi 1899 to 1907, Tripoli (Trablusgarp)
  3. Yusuf Ziya Efendi 1892 to 1897, Timurtas
  4. Mehmet Cemal Efendi 1896 to 1898, Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  5. İhsan Efendi 1908/09, Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Van2
Çanakkale2
Artvin (Livane)1
Berkovitsa (Berkofça)1
Bikfaya (Bekfiya)1
Bitlis1
Camburnu1
Gelibolu1
Marmara Ereğlisi1
Rize1

The 10 places with most officials, of 11.

Names, position and identifiers of Batumi (Batum)
Place
Identifierl-d6cc74205f02563c
Spelling in the cataloguebatum
NameName matched
Kind of placePlace
ProvinceTrabzon province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencerize
PositionNo usable position
Present-day countryGeorgia
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
BatumTurkishPreferred nameEditor
BatumiEnglishPreferred nameEditor
BatumSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
batumSpelling 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: Eker (2017), 27 entries, 1 probably and 0 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Batumlu Osmanlı âlimleri

ORHAN EKER (2017), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Batumlu).

Entries of Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Batumlu Osmanlı âlimleri
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Abdullah Azmi EfendiPDF 32, 33Named in the work only
Ahmed Hamdi EfendiPDF 33, 34Named in the work only
Ahmed Tevfik EfendiPDF 34, 35Named in the work only
Ali EfendiPDF 35, 36Named in the work only
Ali Haydar EfendiPDF 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41Named in the work only
Bilal Gavanim EfendiPDF 41, 42Named in the work only
Cafer Fahri EfendiPDF 42, 43, 44Named in the work only
El-Hac Hüseyin Hüsnü EfendiPDF 44, 45Named in the work only
Hafız Mehmed Emin EfendiPDF 45, 46Named in the work only
Hasan Fehmi EfendiPDF 46, 47Named in the work only
Hasan Şerifzâde EfendiPDF 47, 48Named in the work only
Hasan Tahsin EfendiPDF 48Named in the work only
Hüseyin Fikri EfendiPDF 48, 49Named in the work only
Hüseyin Remzi EfendiPDF 49, 50Named in the work only
İlyas Fevzi EfendiPDF 50, 51Named in the work only
İshak Necati EfendiPDF 51, 52Named in the work only
İsmail Hakkı EfendiPDF 52, 53Named in the work only
İsmail Hakkı EfendiPDF 53, 54Named in the work only
Mahmud Hilmi EfendiPDF 54, 55Named in the work only
Yusuf Ziya EfendiPDF 61, 62Probably Yusuf Ziya Efendi

7 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.

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