School

Mihitaryan Mektebi

Stored spellings: Mihitaryan Mektebi; mihitaryan mektebi

1 official has Mihitaryan Mektebi recorded as school. The annual entries of this official, 4 in all, run from 1900 to 1904 (AH 1318 to 1321). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 350 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years.

Officials: 1
Years on recordAH 1318 to 1321, 4 years with an entry: 1900 to 1904
Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries: 350 kuruş
Places with officials: 1

Profile of the group: Community school

No source read describes Mihitaryan Mektebi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of schools.

Schools of the religious communities (millet) of the empire. A millet was a community defined by religion and church, not by language or descent.

What was taught

French. In the first decades of the telegraph, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Levantines were more likely than Turks to have learned French at school

History

Young non-Muslim graduates who sat the final examinations of their schools were picked by senior Ottoman officials for the telegraph offices.

Sources

Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 377. Used for: what was taught.
Kırmızı, Abdulhamit (2022). Identitäten quantifizieren. Nichtmuslime in der spätosmanischen Beamtenschaft. BIOS 35 (1), 31-48. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 46. Used for: history.
Ortaylı, İlber (2020). Millet (Osmanlılar'da millet sistemi). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 30, 66-70. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 66-70. Used for: summary.

Schooling, first pay and careers

What the records say about the 1 official with this school.

Years of schooling recorded: 7.0 yearsmean 7.0; 1 official with years; all schooling up to this school, not the years spent in it

The records give no place for this school.

Places

Places of Mihitaryan Mektebi, the place with most officials first
Place	Province	Officials	Annual entries	Years
Beyoğlu	Istanbul (Dersaadet) province	1	4	1900 to 1904

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mihitaryan Mektebi
Official	Years	Annual entries	Main title	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Yervant Mariter Efendi	1900 to 1904	4	Tercume Odasi	350	Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

Profile of the group: Community school#