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İbrahim Edhem Efendi

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Pristina (Priştine) · Dated entries 1882 to 1891 (AH 1300 to 1308)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29-49

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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1Pristina (Priştine)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Pristina (Priştine)

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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

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Kosova / Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi / Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova; Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi; Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası

    1. Kosova

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası

      Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası mukayyidi

      220 kuruşCalculated age 17

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası / Place not recorded / Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası; Location not recorded; Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi

      All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1884/85 (AH 1302) · 7 recorded years

      Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi

      AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

      Within-year entry order unresolved

      Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi

      1. Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi mübeyyizi

        50 kuruşCalculated age 19

        Continuing service as described

      2. Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi mübeyyizi

        220 kuruşCalculated age 25

      All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

    7 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.

    Read all 7 undated entries and their source evidence →

    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.

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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
    1882/83 (AH 1300)220400150 to 1,40016.0%1655
    1883/84 (AH 1301)220400150 to 1,40015.9%1720
    1884/85 (AH 1302)50400150 to 1,5001.9%1748
    1885/86 (AH 1303)50400150 to 1,5002.4%1787
    1886/87 (AH 1304)110400150 to 1,5006.3%1725
    1887/88 (AH 1305)110400150 to 1,5006.6%1762
    1888/89 (AH 1306)150400135 to 1,50010.6%1797
    1889/90 (AH 1307)200400130 to 1,50015.3%1874
    1890/91 (AH 1308)220400125 to 1,50020.0%1896

    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. Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi9
      1882 to 1891 (AH 1300 to 1308)
    2. Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası2
      1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)

    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. Kosova Vilayeti Mektupçu Kalemi50 to 220
    2. Kosova Vilayeti Emlak Tahriri Fırkası220

    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. 1883 to 1891 (AH 1301 to 1308)
    2. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
    3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

    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

    Qualification Formal qualification recorded; diploma [1]

    Schooling Priştine Sıbyan ve Rüştiye Mektepleri [source]

    Language skills and historical terms

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

    • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
    All personal fields and their sources

    Sources and evidence

    1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Priştineli memurlar

      ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 162, 163

      BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29-49

    Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 9 dated AH years

    Annual salary study and register readings

    The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

    Open the salary study and register readings →

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