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Mustafa Hilmi Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kars · Dated entries 1876 to 1890 (AH 1293 to 1307)

Languages Arabic, Persian

Archival references BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 7/599; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 7/599

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 7 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.

ErzurumAğrı (Karakilise)Kars
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Arpaçay

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

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Arpaçay

    Not yet located on the map: Arpaçay

    1. Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruş

  2. 2

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Arpaçay / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Arpaçay

      Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      maaş ödemesinin sonu

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 3 recorded years

    Erzurum

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüsumat Nezareti sandık emini

      400 kuruş

    2. Rüsumat Nezareti sandık emini

      400 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Musun / Ağrı (Karakilise)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Musun

    1. Musun

      Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruş

    2. Ağrı (Karakilise)

      Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruş

  5. 5

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Bayezit

    Not yet located on the map: Bayezit

    1. Rüsumat Memuru

      400 kuruş

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Zivin

    Not yet located on the map: Zivin

    1. Rüsumat İdaresi mubassırı

      250 kuruş

  7. 7

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Hakkâri

    Not yet located on the map: Hakkâri

    1. Rüsumat İdaresi memuru

      450 kuruş

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.

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
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)300450150 to 1,80029.8%1160
1879/80 (AH 1297)400400180 to 1,80044.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)600400160 to 1,50068.2%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)400400150 to 1,50046.6%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)400400150 to 1,50045.1%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)250400150 to 1,50019.6%1787
1889/90 (AH 1307)450400130 to 1,50053.6%1874

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. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  2. Arpaçay2
    1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
  3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. Bayezit1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)
  5. Hakkâri1
    1889/90 (AH 1307)
  6. Musun1
    1882/83 (AH 1300)

The six most recorded places. 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. Erzurum400 to 600
  2. Arpaçay300
  3. Bayezit400
  4. Hakkâri450
  5. Musun300

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1876 to 1885 (AH 1293 to 1302)
  2. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  3. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
  4. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  5. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  6. 1880/81 (AH 1298)

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 Kars Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Qualification Arapça, Farsça, Fenn-i hesap dersleri [1]

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 Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)

    RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ · 2015 · Pages 119

    115 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 7/599.; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 7/599

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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 12 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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