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Ramazan Remzi Efendi

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1885 to 1908 (AH 1303 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 137/61, s. 119

The career, year by year

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

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1Shkodër (İşkodra)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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.

  1. 1

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Merkez Gümrük İdaresi kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 22 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Merkez Gümrük İdaresi kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûmat Nezareti Merkez İdaresi Muhasebesi yevmiye mukayyidi

      370 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 30 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry 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)150400150 to 1,5009.3%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)150400150 to 1,5009.2%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)150400150 to 1,5009.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)200400135 to 1,50015.4%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)200400130 to 1,50015.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)200400125 to 1,50015.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)200400140 to 1,60014.9%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)200400135 to 1,50015.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)200400140 to 1,40014.0%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)200400140 to 1,50015.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)220400140 to 1,50019.2%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)220450150 to 1,57517.0%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)220400140 to 1,42519.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)220400144 to 1,40018.9%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)220400140 to 1,44020.0%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)220400140 to 1,50020.2%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)220400150 to 1,52020.4%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)220400150 to 1,50020.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)220405150 to 1,45020.5%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)220400135 to 1,50020.5%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)250430125 to 1,50022.6%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)320450150 to 1,52536.3%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)370460135 to 1,61540.3%1290

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 1908 (AH 1303 to 1325)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1895 to 1906 (AH 1313 to 1323)
  2. 1888 to 1896 (AH 1306 to 1313)
  3. 1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
  4. 1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
  5. 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
  6. 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)

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 İşkodra Sıbyan ve Rüşdiye mektepleri [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 Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 291, 292

    BOA. DH. SAİDd., 137/61, s. 119.

Read the original source accounts · 32 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 · 23 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 31 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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