Kalas Başşehbender Vekili ve Kançıları Aris Fesciyan

Born 1869/70 (AH 1286) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1892 to 1909 (AH 1310 to 1326)

Languages Arabic, Armenian, English, French, Persian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

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The life

Kalas Başşehbender Vekili ve Kançıları Aris Fesciyan was born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1869/70 (AH 1286), within the Hristiyan community. Schooling included Selamsız Ermeni Mekteb-i İbtidaisi; Berberyan Mektebi. The language repertoire included Arabic, Armenian, English, French, Persian, Rum (as recorded) and Turkish.^[source]

The first place of work was İbrail. Dated career entries span 1892/93 (AH 1310) to 1908/09 (AH 1326) across 16 AH years. More than one post or place appears in 4 of those years. Place names include İbrail, Constanța (Köstence), Kalas and Ermeni Patrikhanesi.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 1,000 kuruş in 1892/93 (AH 1310) to 2,500 kuruş in 1908/09 (AH 1326); the highest recorded monthly rate is 2,500 kuruş in 1903/04 (AH 1321).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 1869/70 (AH 1286)^[source]
Education: Selamsız Ermeni Mekteb-i İbtidaisi; Berberyan Mektebi^[source]
First work: İbrail^[source]
First salary: 400 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

16
Dated AH years: 4
Career place names: 3
Entries without a resolved year: 16
Salary years: 1,000 → 2,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 2,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 93.0%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1892/93 (AH 1310) to 1908/09 (AH 1326); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1908/09 (AH 1326).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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1869/70 (AH 1286)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1892/93 (AH 1310)
İbrail / Constanța (Köstence) / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İbrail; Location not recorded
1. İbrail
  Şehbenderhane kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
3
1893/94 (AH 1311) · 2 recorded years
Constanța (Köstence)
AH entries: 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Başşehbenderhane kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Başşehbenderhane kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1895/96 (AH 1313)
Constanța (Köstence) / Kalas
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Constanța (Köstence)
  Başşehbenderhane kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kalas
  Başşehbenderhane şehbender vekili ve kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1896/97 (AH 1314)
Kalas / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Kalas
  Başşehbenderhane şehbender vekili ve kançıları
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Azil
  Calculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1897/98 (AH 1315) · 5 recorded years
Kalas
AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Başşehbenderhane şehbender vekili ve kançıları
  500 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Başşehbenderhane şehbender vekili ve kançıları
  900 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1903/04 (AH 1321) · 5 recorded years
Ermeni Patrikhanesi
AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Ermeni Patrikhanesi
1. Ermeni Patrikhanesi kapı kethüdası
  2,500 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ermeni Patrikhanesi kapı kethüdası
  2,500 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 5 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Ermeni Patrikhanesi / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ermeni Patrikhanesi; Location not recorded
1. Ermeni Patrikhanesi
  Ermeni Patrikhanesi kapı kethüdası
  2,500 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]

4 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.

Şehbenderhane kâtibi ve kançıları · İbrail · Undated · 400 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Başşehbender vekili (Görevin sona ermesi) · Constanța (Köstence) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Infisal · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · İbrail · Year not recorded

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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1892/93 (AH 1310)	1,000	400	135 to 1,500	80.8%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	1,000	400	140 to 1,400	81.7%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	1,000	400	140 to 1,500	80.7%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	1,000	400	140 to 1,500	80.4%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	1,000	450	150 to 1,575	79.4%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	500	400	140 to 1,425	56.9%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	500	400	144 to 1,400	55.8%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	500	400	140 to 1,440	55.3%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.5%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	900	400	150 to 1,520	78.6%	1666
1903/04 (AH 1321)	2,500	405	150 to 1,450	95.9%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	2,500	400	135 to 1,500	95.8%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	2,500	430	125 to 1,500	95.7%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	2,500	450	150 to 1,525	95.1%	1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)	2,500	460	135 to 1,615	94.5%	1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)	2,500	400	150 to 2,000	93.0%	1232

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Kalas7
1895 to 1902 (AH 1313 to 1319)
Ermeni Patrikhanesi6
1903 to 1909 (AH 1321 to 1326)
Constanța (Köstence)4
1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
İbrail1
1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Kalas500 to 1,000
Ermeni Patrikhanesi2,500
Constanța (Köstence)500 to 1,000
İbrail500 to 1,000

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

Başşehbenderhane şehbender vekili ve kançıları7
1895 to 1902 (AH 1313 to 1319)
Ermeni Patrikhanesi kapı kethüdası6
1903 to 1909 (AH 1321 to 1326)
Başşehbenderhane kançıları4
1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
Infisal2
1892 to 1909 (AH 1310 to 1326)
Başşehbender vekili1
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Şehbenderhane kançıları1
1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Istanbul665 other officialsAleko Âdem Efendi born 1869/70 (AH 1286); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Kalas2 other officialsManok Azaryan Efendi 1 shared year; highest salary 4,000 kuruş
1892/93 (AH 1310)165 other officialsMehmed Efendi first annual entry 1892/93 (AH 1310); highest salary 300 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Fünun-ı edebiyat şahadetnamesi^[1]

Schooling Selamsız Ermeni Mekteb-i İbtidaisi; Berberyan Mektebi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Aşina^[source]
Armenian · okur yazar ve tekellüm^[source]
English · Aşina^[source]
French · okur yazar ve tekellüm^[source]
Persian · Aşina^[source]
Rum (as recorded) · okur yazar ve tekellüm^[source]
Turkish · okur yazar ve tekellüm^[source]

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Sources and evidence

II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)
BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 249, 250, 251

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 16 dated AH years

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