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Place

Kavak

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

14 officials are recorded serving in Kavak, from 1877 to 1906 (AH 1294 to 1323), in 29 annual entries. The median of the 29 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş. The fullest year is 1885/86 with 2 officials.

Officials serving
14
Annual entries1877 to 1906, AH 1294 to 1323
29
Year with most officials2 officials
1885/86
Median monthly salaryfrom 29 recorded salaries
500 kuruş
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1885/86 (AH 1303) with 2 officials. Years with an annual entry: 24.
0121878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13202 in 1885/86Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

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Officials on record each year, Kavak
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1877/78 (AH 1294)111
1878 (AH 1295)101
1878/79 (AH 1296)101
1882/83 (AH 1300)111
1883/84 (AH 1301)101
1884/85 (AH 1302)101
1885/86 (AH 1303)222
1886/87 (AH 1304)202
1887/88 (AH 1305)202
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)111
1890/91 (AH 1308)111
1891/92 (AH 1309)111
1892/93 (AH 1310)222
1893/94 (AH 1311)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)111
1898/99 (AH 1316)111
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1900/01 (AH 1318)111
1901/02 (AH 1319)101
1902/03 (AH 1320)111
1903/04 (AH 1321)212
1904/05 (AH 1322)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)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 29 recorded monthly salaries is 500 kuruş, the mean 493 kuruş.
02004006001878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320500 kuruş in 1905/06Kavak, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

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Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Kavak
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1877/781600600600600560
18781600600600600600
1878/791600600600600600
1882/831500500500500500
1883/841500500500500500
1884/851500500500500500
1885/862362.5362.5306.25418.75500
1886/872362.5362.5306.25418.75500
1887/882362.5362.5306.25418.75500
1888/891475475475475500
1889/901500500500500500
1890/911500500500500500
1891/921500500500500500
1892/932500500450550500
1893/941600600600600500
1897/981540540540540500
1898/991542542542542500
1899/19001542542542542500
1900/011540540540540500
1901/021540540540540500
1902/031500500500500500
1903/042520520510530475
1904/051500500500500450
1905/061500500500500475

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

3 job titles on record. The most frequent is Muhabere Memuru, held by 9 officials.
Muhabere Memuru93. Müdür4Başmemur11877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221 official2 officials

The 3 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

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Officials by job title and year, Kavak
YearMuhabere Memuru3. MüdürBaşmemur
1877/781
18781
1878/791
1882/831
1883/841
1884/851
1885/862
1886/872
1887/882
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/9311
1893/941
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1900/011
1901/021
1902/031
1903/0411
1904/051
1905/061

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 3 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
KavakIstanbul (Dersaadet)Ağrı (Karakilise)DiyarbakırEdirneGümüşhane2 officials1 official

Not drawn, with the number of officials. No position recorded: Cerkezistan (1).

The 10 birthplaces with most officials, of 13, all years
PlaceOfficialsRemark
Istanbul (Dersaadet)2
Ağrı (Karakilise)1
Cerkezistan1no position recorded
Diyarbakır1
Edirne1
Gümüşhane1
Harput1
İnebolu1
Kayseri1
Merzifon1

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

14 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.
Ali Galip EfendiMehmet Behçet EfendiMehmet Şakir EfendiDavid EfendiUnnamed official (0049_0045;…Mustafa Atıf EfendiAli Haydar EfendiFikri EfendiMustafa Raif EfendiAhmet Ferit EfendiVEYSEL EFENDİMehmet Hilmi EfendiMehmet Tevfik EfendiOsman Nuri Efendi1877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 1322Post 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

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

Officials of Kavak
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
David Efendi1885 to 18894Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)475Diyarbakır
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1902 to 190643. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Ağrı (Karakilise)
Ali Galip Efendi1877 to 18793Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Behçet Efendi1882 to 18853Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Cerkezistan
Mehmet Şakir Efendi1885 to 18883Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)250Samsun
Mehmet Hilmi Efendi1900 to 190223. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Merzifon
Mustafa Raif Efendi1892 to 189423. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)600İnebolu
VEYSEL EFENDİ1898 to 19002Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)542Sivas
Ahmet Ferit Efendi1897/9813. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Haydar Efendi1891/921Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Oryahovo (Rahova)
Fikri Efendi1892/931Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)400Kayseri
Mustafa Atıf Efendi1890/911Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Harput
Osman Nuri Efendi1903/041Başmemurchief official540Gümüşhane
Unnamed official (0049_0045; 87)1889/901Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)500Edirne

Years here run from the first to the last annual entry here. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Samsun2
Akçakoca (Akçaşehir)1
Eleşkirt1
Ezine1
Fatsa1
Görele1
Gürün1
Mersin1
Nusaybin1
Of1

The 10 places with most officials, of 12.

Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Akçakoca (Akçaşehir)1
Amasya1
Berat1
Diyadin1
Fatsa1
Görele1
Havsa1
Karaman1
Koyulhisar1
Ladik1

The 10 places with most officials, of 14.

Names, position and identifiers of Kavak
Place
Identifierl-ee637cd127ecb569
Spelling in the cataloguekavak
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceTrabzon province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencesamsun
PositionLatitude 41.078913, longitude 36.042045. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KavakEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KavakTurkishPreferred nameEditor
kavakSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

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