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İbrahim Hilmi Efendi

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Baghdad (Bağdat) · Dated entries 1884 to 1898 (AH 1302 to 1315)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.789

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1Baghdad (Bağdat)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Baghdad (Bağdat)

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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

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi memuru

      24 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 2 recorded years

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    AH entries: 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi memuru

      24 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi memuru

      34 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi memuru

      34 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    1. Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Askerlik nedeniyle ara

      Calculated age 24

  7. 7

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 4 recorded years

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    1. Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Hilla

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hilla

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Arazi-i Seniyye Vekâleti ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hilla

      Tahrirat birinci refiki

      400 kuruşCalculated age 29

  9. 9

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

    Hilla

    AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hilla

    1. Tahrirat birinci refiki

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhasebe refiki ve sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Hilla / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hilla; Location not recorded

    1. Hilla

      Muhasebe refiki ve sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 32

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.

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Current collection salary comparison

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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
1884/85 (AH 1302)24400150 to 1,5000.7%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)34400150 to 1,5001.6%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)34400150 to 1,5001.2%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)250400150 to 1,50020.9%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)250400130 to 1,50021.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)250400125 to 1,50021.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)250400140 to 1,40021.2%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)500400140 to 1,42556.9%1891

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. 1884 to 1895 (AH 1302 to 1312)
  2. Hilla4
    1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)

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. Hilla400 to 500

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. 1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312)
  2. 1884 to 1888 (AH 1302 to 1305)
  3. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  4. 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
  5. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  6. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mahallî sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 60, 61

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.789

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 14 dated AH years

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