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Mustafa Sabri Efendi

Born 1875/76 (AH 1292) · Bosna · Dated entries 1887 to 1908 (AH 1305 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 120/215; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 120/215; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 120/215, s.215

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 7 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

Louros (Loros)Ioannina (Yanya)Elassona (Alasonya)Himarë (Himara)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Bosna

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Bosna

    Not yet located on the map: Bosna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Place not recorded / Louros (Loros)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 13

    2. Louros (Loros)

      Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 13

  3. 3

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

  4. 4

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 2 recorded years

    Elassona (Alasonya) / Himarë (Himara)

    AH entries: 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Elassona (Alasonya)

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Himarë (Himara)

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Elassona (Alasonya) / Kurane / Himarë (Himara) / Kozan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kurane; Kozan

    1. Elassona (Alasonya)

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kozan

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 2 recorded years

    Kozan

    AH entries: 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kozan

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 33

4 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)500400150 to 1,50055.5%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)500405150 to 1,45054.0%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)500400135 to 1,50055.0%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)500430125 to 1,50052.7%1423

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
  2. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
  3. Kozan3
    1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
  4. 1907/08 (AH 1325)
  5. Kurane1
    1903/04 (AH 1321)
  6. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Kozan500
  2. Kurane500

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1903 to 1908 (AH 1321 to 1325)
  2. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
  3. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  5. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Ankara vilayeti rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 164

    223 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 120/215. 150

  2. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 262, 263

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 120/215; 348 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 120/215, s.215.

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 8 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 14 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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