Statesmen from Varna in the Ottoman bureaucracy according to Sicill-i Ahvâl Defters

During the reign of Abdülhamid II, the Sicill-i Ahvâl Commission was established to control the increase in the number of civil servants and to systematize civil servant appointments. Between 1879-1909, the commission recorded the biographical information of the civil servants in the Ottoman State organization, such as their names, father's names, father's occupations, if any, place and date of birth, schools they attended, their educational background, languages they knew or were familiar with, the institutions they worked in, the amount of salaries they received and their status in terms of transfer, exchange positions with other officials, resignation, promotion, rank, reward and punishment. The records kept by the Sicill-i Ahval Commission are currently located in the Ottoman Archives of the Presidency of the State Archives of the Republic of Turkey and consist of 201 notebooks. The information kept in these registers provides valuable insights into the economic structure and civil servant policies of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the administrative functioning of the period. In the Sicill-i Ahvâl Books, where the biographies of 51,652 civil servants were kept, the records of 99 civil servants born in Varna were accessed and transcribed, and information about the position of the existing 99 civil servants in the Ottoman bureaucracy, their economic, educational and social situations was tried to be conveyed based on documents. Keywords: Bureaucracy, Biography, Sicill-i Ahvâl, Abdülhamid II, Varna.