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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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İlyas Fevzi Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Maradid · Dated entries 1874 to 1911 (AH 1291 to 1329)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference İST. MFT. MŞH, SAİD, 228, 15/14, 3851

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 11 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.

Artvin (Livane)OfYalvaçYenişehirGeyveKandıraBartın
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Maradid

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.

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

  1. 1

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Maradid

    Not yet located on the map: Maradid

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Artvin (Livane)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 31

    2. Livâne naibi

      900 kuruşCalculated age 31

  3. 3

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Of

    1. Of naibi

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 34

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Yalvaç

    1. Yalvaç naibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 39

  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Yenişehir / Hamidiye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hamidiye

    1. Yenişehir

      Yenişehir naibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

    2. Hamidiye

      Hamidiye naibi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 40

  6. 6

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Geyve

    1. Geyve naibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 50

  7. 7

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Kandıra

    1. Kandıra naibi

      Calculated age 54

  8. 8

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Bartın

    1. Bartın naibi

      900 kuruşCalculated age 57

  9. 9

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tekaüt

      Calculated age 61

  10. 10

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Geyve

    1. Geyve naibi

      Calculated age 64

  11. 11

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Ayvacı

    Not yet located on the map: Ayvacı

    1. Ayvacı naibi

      900 kuruşCalculated age 69

2 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.

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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.

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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
1874/75 (AH 1291)900450150 to 1,80075.4%882
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,350450150 to 1,80085.5%1160
1881/82 (AH 1299)1,000400150 to 1,50081.5%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,000400150 to 1,40081.9%1655
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,000400135 to 1,50080.8%1935
1899/1900 (AH 1317)900400140 to 1,44080.3%1821
1911 (AH 1329)900600250 to 2,50061.1%402

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. 1892 to 1907 (AH 1310 to 1324)
  2. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
  3. Ayvacı1
    1911 (AH 1329)
  4. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  5. Hamidiye1
    1882/83 (AH 1300)
  6. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

The six most recorded places. 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. Geyve1,000
  2. Ayvacı900
  3. Hamidiye750
  4. Of1,350

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1892 to 1907 (AH 1310 to 1324)
  2. 1911 (AH 1329)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  5. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  6. 1874/75 (AH 1291)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Mekteb-i Nüvvâb beşinci sınıf şehâdetnâmesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Süleymaniye Mülazımlar Medresesi; Mekteb-i Nüvvâb [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 Ahvâl defterlerine göre Batumlu Osmanlı âlimleri

    ORHAN EKER · 2017 · Pages 50, 51

    İST. MFT. MŞH, SAİD, 228, 15/14, 3851.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 11 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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