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Resul Efendi

Born 1835/36 (AH 1251) · Hacıkara · Dated entries 1858 to 1893 (AH 1275 to 1310)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 13 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.

Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)Baghdad (Bağdat)BasraMandali (Mendeli)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Hacıkara

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.

5 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1835/36 (AH 1251)

    Hacıkara

    Not yet located on the map: Hacıkara

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1858/59 (AH 1275) · 11 recorded years

    Hanekin

    AH entries: 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hanekin

    1. Karantinahane gardiyanı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

    2. Rüsumat Müdürü

      539 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 22 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Hanekin / Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hanekin

    1. Hanekin

      Rüsumat müdürü (Nakil)

      Calculated age 35

      Recorded service ending

    2. Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)

      Rüsumat Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4
    1. Rüsumat Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye) / Place not recorded / Baghdad (Bağdat)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)

      Rüsumat Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Hariciye meclis-i deavi kâtibi

      475 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 3 recorded years

    Basra

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahrirat müdürü

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Tahrirat müdürü

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Basra / Place not recorded / Baghdad (Bağdat)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Basra

      Tahrirat müdürü

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Vilayet meclis-i temyiz başkâtibi

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1878 (AH 1295) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Hariciye rüsumat müdürü

      800 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Hariciye rüsumat müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 45

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    1. Rüsumat nezareti sandık emini

      800 kuruşCalculated age 49

  10. 10

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Mandali (Mendeli)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Rüsumat nezareti sandık emini

      800 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mandali (Mendeli)

      Kaymakam vekili

      875 kuruşCalculated age 50

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Mandali (Mendeli)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam vekili

      875 kuruşCalculated age 51

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 51

      Recorded service ending

  12. 12

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 5 recorded years

    Kirmanşah

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kirmanşah

    1. Şehbender vekili

      Calculated age 54

    2. Şehbender

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 58

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Kirmanşah / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Kirmanşah

      Şehbender

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 59

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 59

2 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
1859/60 (AH 1276)200500150 to 3,35011.8%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)200500150 to 3,00013.5%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)200500150 to 3,00013.8%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)300400140 to 3,00034.7%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)200475125 to 3,00019.9%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)500400125 to 3,00054.8%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)500400150 to 2,00053.2%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)550400146 to 2,00062.6%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)550458150 to 2,50059.0%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)539475150 to 3,00059.5%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)1,250400150 to 2,25079.9%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)1,250400150 to 2,00081.8%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)1,250420.5125 to 2,37580.6%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)1,900450140 to 2,35087.5%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,900405130 to 2,20088.3%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)1,900450150 to 1,80090.2%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)1,900450150 to 2,00089.0%976
1878 (AH 1295)800450150 to 2,00074.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)800400150 to 2,00073.0%1328
1882/83 (AH 1300)800400150 to 1,40077.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)875400150 to 1,40081.0%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)875400150 to 1,50079.8%1748
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,500400130 to 1,50089.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,500400125 to 1,50088.6%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,500400140 to 1,60088.4%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,500400135 to 1,50089.3%1935

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. Hanekin11
    1859 to 1870 (AH 1276 to 1286)
  2. Kirmanşah6
    1887 to 1893 (AH 1305 to 1310)
  3. 1871 to 1884 (AH 1288 to 1301)
  4. 1872 to 1876 (AH 1289 to 1292)
  5. 1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
  6. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)

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. Hanekin150 to 550
  2. Kirmanşah1,500
  3. Baghdad (Bağdat)450 to 1,900
  4. Basra1,900

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. 1864 to 1872 (AH 1281 to 1288)
  2. 1859 to 1863 (AH 1276 to 1279)
  3. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  4. 1872 to 1876 (AH 1289 to 1292)
  5. 1862 to 1865 (AH 1279 to 1281)
  6. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)

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]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 183, 184, 185

Read the original source accounts · 58 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 · 29 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 57 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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