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Place

Kars

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

7 officials are recorded serving in Kars, from 1851 to 1878 (AH 1268 to 1294), in 20 annual entries. The median of the 20 recorded monthly salaries is 950 kuruş. The fullest year is 1866/67 with 2 officials. 7 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
7
Annual entries1851 to 1878, AH 1268 to 1294
20
Year with most officials2 officials
1866/67
Median monthly salaryfrom 20 recorded salaries
950 kuruş
Officials born here
7
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1866/67 (AH 1283) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 14.
0121853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12902 in 1866/67Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Kars
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1851/52 (AH 1268)111
1852/53 (AH 1269)101
1865/66 (AH 1282)111
1866/67 (AH 1283)212
1867/68 (AH 1284)101
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1870/71 (AH 1287)212
1871/72 (AH 1288)202
1872/73 (AH 1289)212
1873/74 (AH 1290)202
1874/75 (AH 1291)101
1875/76 (AH 1292)101
1876/77 (AH 1293)212
1877/78 (AH 1294)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 20 recorded monthly salaries is 950 kuruş, the mean 772 kuruş.
02004006008001,0001,2001,4001853/54AH 12701858/59AH 12751863/64AH 12801868/69AH 12851873/74AH 12901,000 kuruş in 1877/78Kars, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Kars
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1851/5211,0001,0001,0001,000282.5
1852/5311,0001,0001,0001,000350
1865/6611,2001,2001,2001,200650
1866/6721,2501,2501,1251,375600
1867/6811,0001,0001,0001,000600
1869/701400400400400600
1870/712600600500700600
1871/722665665522.5807.5550
1872/732665665522.5807.5550
1873/742665665522.5807.5500
1874/751380380380380535
1875/761380380380380530
1876/772690690535845575
1877/7811,0001,0001,0001,000560

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

6 job titles on record. The most frequent is 2. Müdür, held by 2 officials.
2. Müdür2Muhabere Memuru21. Müdür1Defter-i Hakani Kalemi1Tahkik Memuru1Tahrirat Kalemi11851/52AH 12681853/54AH 12701855/56AH 12721857/58AH 12741859/60AH 12761861/62AH 12781863/64AH 12801865/66AH 12821867/68AH 12841869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941 official

The 6 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, Kars
Year2. MüdürMuhabere Memuru1. MüdürDefter-i Hakani KalemiTahkik MemuruTahrirat Kalemi
1851/521
1852/531
1865/661
1866/6711
1867/681
1869/701
1870/7111
1871/7211
1872/7311
1873/7411
1874/751
1875/761
1876/7711
1877/781

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 6 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
Kars1 born hereErzurumAnkaraKemaliye (Eğin)SivasVidinFurther places2 officials1 official

All 6 birthplaces, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Erzurum2
Ankara1
Kars1this place
Kemaliye (Eğin)1
Sivas1
Vidin1in the small map
Where the officials born here were serving
Kars1 serving hereErzurumBitlisMuşBulanıkBafra4 officials1 official

The 10 places of service with most officials, of 24, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Erzurum4
Bitlis3
Muş3
Bulanık2
Ağrı (Karakilise)1
Bafra1
Bartın1
Başkale1
Denizli1
Devrek1

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.
Osman Vafi EfendiHacı Halil EfendiHaci Lutfullah BeyHamdi EfendiOmer Vasfi EfendiAhmet Şakir EfendiHacı Kâmil Efendi1851/52AH 12681853/54AH 12701855/56AH 12721857/58AH 12741859/60AH 12761861/62AH 12781863/64AH 12801865/66AH 12821867/68AH 12841869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 1294Post 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 Kars
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Şakir Efendi1872 to 18775Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380Ankara
Omer Vasfi Efendi1870 to 18744Defter-i Hakani KalemiLand Registry office800 to 950Kemaliye (Eğin)
Hacı Halil Efendi1865 to 186832. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,000 to 1,200Sivas
Hamdi Efendi1869 to 18723Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)380 to 400Kars
Hacı Kâmil Efendi1876 to 187822. Müdürdirector of the second grade1,000Vidin
Osman Vafi Efendi1851 to 18532Tahrirat Kalemicorrespondence office1,000Erzurum
Haci Lutfullah Bey1866/671Tahkik Memuru1,500Erzurum

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

7 officials of the collection were born here. 1 of them is also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Hamdi Efendi 1869 to 1910, Başkale
  2. Mehmet Arif Efendi 1874 to 1907, Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  3. Mehmet Necati Efendi 1888 to 1907, Erzurum
  4. Ömer Bahaettin Efendi 1869 to 1888, Bafra
  5. Hüseyin İlhami Efendi 1893 to 1907, Denizli
  6. Ahmet Faik Efendi 1899 to 1906, Zonguldak
  7. Unnamed official (0157_0046; 89) 1908/09, Bulanık

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Erzurum2
Doğubayazıt (Bayezid)1
Erzincan1
Kayseri1
Sivas1
Tokat1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Erzurum2
Bitlis1
Bursa1
Erzincan1
Kemaliye (Eğin)1
Names, position and identifiers of Kars
Place
Identifierl-e2728d2b1ee83405
Spelling in the cataloguekars
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceErzurum province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referenceerzurum
PositionLatitude 40.601267, longitude 43.095627. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KarsEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KarsTurkishPreferred nameEditor
KarsSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records
karsSpelling 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: Çifçi (2015), 123 entries, 4 probably and 0 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)

RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ (2015), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Karslı).

Entries of Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
Abdullah Galip EfendiPDF 44Named in the work only
Abdurrahman EfendiPDF 44, 45Named in the work only
Abdülhadi Hidayet EfendiPDF 45, 46Named in the work only
Abdülhamit EfendiPDF 46, 47Named in the work only
Abdülvahid BeyPDF 47, 48Named in the work only
Ahmet Abdüssamet EfendiPDF 48Named in the work only
Ahmet EfendiPDF 48, 49Named in the work only
Ahmet Faik EfendiPDF 49, 50Probably Ahmet Faik Efendi
Ahmet Ferit PaĢaPDF 50, 51Named in the work only
Ahmet Hamdi BeyPDF 51Named in the work only
Ahmet Hamdi EfendiPDF 51, 52Named in the work only
Ahmet Hamdi EfendiPDF 52, 53Named in the work only
Ahmet Ġzzet EfendiPDF 53Named in the work only
Ahmet Nazif BeyPDF 53, 54Named in the work only
Hamdi EfendiPDF 74, 75Probably Hamdi Efendi
Hüseyin Ġlhami EfendiPDF 82, 83Probably Hüseyin İlhami Efendi
Mehmet Necati EfendiPDF 101Probably Mehmet Necati Efendi

106 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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