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Mustafa Safi Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Harput · Dated entries 1891 to 1913 (AH 1309 to 1331)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 106-134

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Harput

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.

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

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Lüleburgaz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Mal kalemi mülazımı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 21

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 4 recorded years

    Mamuratülaziz

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz

    1. Evkâf kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

    2. Evkâf kalemi mülazımı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 26

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Mamuratülaziz

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz

    1. Evkâf kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 28

  5. 5

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Mamuratülaziz / Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz; Dersim

    1. Mamuratülaziz

      Evkâf kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dersim

      Evkâf müdür vekili

      150 kuruşCalculated age 29

  6. 6

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Dersim / Siverek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Dersim

      Evkaf Memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Siverek

      Evkaf Memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 41

  7. 7

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    Siverek

    1. Evkaf Memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1912/13 (AH 1331)

    Siverek / Gümüşhane

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Siverek

      Evkaf Memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gümüşhane

      Evkaf Memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 43

3 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
1899/1900 (AH 1317)150400140 to 1,44010.4%1821
1911 (AH 1329)750600250 to 2,50053.6%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)7501,000300 to 3,00037.1%233
1912/13 (AH 1331)7501,200300 to 4,00030.7%151

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. Mamuratülaziz6
    1893 to 1900 (AH 1311 to 1317)
  2. 1911 to 1913 (AH 1329 to 1331)
  3. Dersim2
    1899 to 1911 (AH 1317 to 1329)
  4. 1912/13 (AH 1331)
  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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. Dersim150 to 400

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. 1893 to 1900 (AH 1311 to 1317)
  2. 1911 to 1913 (AH 1329 to 1331)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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 Harput İbtidai Mektebi; Tevfikiye Medresesi [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 Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 115, 116, 117

    BOA. DH. SAİD 106-134

Read the original source accounts · 20 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.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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