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İbrahim Vasfi Efendi

Born 1858/59 (AH 1275) · Erzincan · Dated entries 1885 to 1900 (AH 1303 to 1317)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD, 247/57

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

1ErzincanKemah
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Erzincan

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

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Erzincan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 3 recorded years

    Erzincan

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    1. Duyun-u Umumiye istimare memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Duyun-u Umumiye istimare memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Erzincan / Kemah

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Erzincan

      Duyun-u Umumiye istimare memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kemah

      Memleha müdüriyeti başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Kemah / Kırmızı memlehası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kırmızı memlehası

    1. Kemah

      Memleha müdüriyeti başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kırmızı memlehası

      Memleha başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Ak memlehası

    Not yet located on the map: Ak memlehası

    1. Memleha memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 41

  6. 6

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Ak memlehası / Göneli memlehası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ak memlehası; Göneli memlehası

    1. Ak memlehası

      Memleha memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    2. Göneli memlehası

      Memleha müdürü

      800 kuruşCalculated age 42

6 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
1885/86 (AH 1303)250400150 to 1,50019.6%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)250400150 to 1,50020.1%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)250400150 to 1,50020.9%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)500400130 to 1,50056.1%1874
1898/99 (AH 1316)600400144 to 1,40068.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)800400140 to 1,44077.3%1821

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. 1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
  2. Ak memlehası2
    1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  3. 1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
  4. Göneli memlehası1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  5. Kırmızı memlehası1
    1889/90 (AH 1307)

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. Erzincan250 to 350
  2. Ak memlehası600
  3. Göneli memlehası800
  4. Kırmızı memlehası500

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. 1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
  2. 1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  3. 1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)
  5. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  6. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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 Mekatib-i ibtidaiye; medrese (fünun-u nafia) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına Göre Erzincanlı memurlar

    ENGİN ADAK · 2008 · Pages 67

    101 BOA, DH. SAİD, 247/57

Read the original source accounts · 16 source entries →

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 · 7 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.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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