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İdris Enis Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Silistra (Silistre) · Dated entries 1870 to 1897 (AH 1287 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297

The career, year by year

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Shkodër (İşkodra)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Silistra (Silistre)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi

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Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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  1. 1

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Kâtip

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 5 recorded years

    Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi

    AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi

    1. Kâtip

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kâtip (ikinci sınıf)

      1,204 kuruş

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 2 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Fırka-i askeriye kumandanlığı mukayyidi

      1,800 kuruş

    2. Fırka-i askeriye kumandanlığı mukayyidi (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Yenişehir / Ordu-yı Hümayun

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenişehir; Ordu-yı Hümayun

    1. Yenişehir

      Fırka-i askeriye tahrirat kâtibi

      2,000 kuruş

    2. Ordu-yı Hümayun

      Redif yoklaması memuru

      1,600 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 6 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Erkân-ı harbiye dairesi yedinci şube kısm-ı sani mümeyyizi

      2,000 kuruş

    2. Erkân-ı harbiye dairesi yedinci şube kısm-ı sani mümeyyizi

      1,800 kuruş

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

  • Levazım dairesi üçüncü şube müdür muavini · Ordu-yı Hümayun · Undated · 1,600 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Birth · Silistra (Silistre) · 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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1870/71 (AH 1287)400400150 to 2,00044.9%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)400420.5125 to 2,37542.9%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)400450140 to 2,35043.3%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)400405130 to 2,20044.6%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)400450150 to 1,80043.5%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)1,204450150 to 2,00082.6%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,800420150 to 2,00088.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,800450150 to 1,80089.3%1160
1878/79 (AH 1296)2,000400150 to 2,00088.5%1328
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,000400140 to 1,60092.2%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)2,000400135 to 1,50092.9%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)2,000400140 to 1,40093.5%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)2,000400140 to 1,50093.1%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)2,000400140 to 1,50092.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)2,000450150 to 1,57592.1%2119

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. 1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  2. Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi6
    1870 to 1876 (AH 1287 to 1292)
  3. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
  4. Ordu-yı Hümayun1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)
  5. Yenişehir1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)

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. Istanbul (Dersaadet)1,800 to 2,000
  2. Üçüncü Ordu-yı Hümayun Meclis Kalemi400 to 1,204
  3. Ordu-yı Hümayun1,600
  4. Yenişehir2,000

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
  1. 1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  2. 1871 to 1876 (AH 1288 to 1292)
  3. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
  4. 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
  5. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  6. 1875/76 (AH 1292)

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; Manastır rüşdiyesi [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. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları

    KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 52, 53

    BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297; BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297; 168 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297.; 169 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297.; 170 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 77/297.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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