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Mustafa Nuri Efendi

Born 1841/42 (AH 1257) · Ürgüp · Dated entries 1858 to 1883 (AH 1275 to 1300)

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00031/00164

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1ÜrgüpİzmitMudurnuAnkaraNablus
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Ürgüp

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

    1841/42 (AH 1257)

    Ürgüp

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    İzmit

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    İzmit / Mudurnu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İzmit

      Telgrafhane mühabere memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 19

    2. Mudurnu

      Telgraf kadransı memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 19

  4. 4

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Mudurnu

    1. Telgraf kadransı memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Mudurnu / Ankara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mudurnu

      Telgraf kadransı memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ankara

      Telgrafhane mühabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 21

  6. 6

    1862/63 (AH 1279) · 2 recorded years

    Ankara

    AH entries: 1279, 1280. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgrafhane mühabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane mühabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Ankara / Kazan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazan

    1. Ankara

      Telgrafhane mühabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kazan

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 24

  8. 8

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Kazan / Yaka

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazan; Yaka

    1. Kazan

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yaka

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 25

  9. 9

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Yaka / Nablus

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yaka

    1. Yaka

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nablus

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 26

  10. 10

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Nüfus İdare-i Umumiyesi memuru

      Calculated age 43

    2. Nüfus İdare-i Umumiyesi memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 43

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

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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
1859/60 (AH 1276)500500150 to 3,35048.2%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)500500150 to 3,00047.4%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)500500150 to 3,00043.8%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)500400140 to 3,00053.1%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)500475125 to 3,00050.2%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)1,250400125 to 3,00078.2%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)1,250400150 to 2,00082.1%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)1,200400146 to 2,00081.4%399
1882/83 (AH 1300)700400150 to 1,40074.1%1655

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. 1861 to 1865 (AH 1278 to 1281)
  2. 1859 to 1862 (AH 1276 to 1278)
  3. 1858 to 1860 (AH 1275 to 1276)
  4. Kazan2
    1864 to 1866 (AH 1281 to 1282)
  5. Yaka2
    1865 to 1867 (AH 1282 to 1283)
  6. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

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. Kazan1,250
  2. Yaka1,200
  3. Nablus1,200

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. 1859 to 1865 (AH 1276 to 1281)
  2. 1859 to 1862 (AH 1276 to 1278)
  3. 1864 to 1867 (AH 1281 to 1283)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  5. 1858/59 (AH 1275)

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 [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Ürgüplü devlet adamları

    HATİCE KÜBRA YILDIZ · 2020 · Pages 85, 86

    88 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00031/00164.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00031/00164.

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 17 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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