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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Necmi oğlu Şerif Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Gaziantep (Antep) · Dated entries 1902 to 1911 (AH 1320 to 1328)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 181/182

The career, year by year

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

Follow 5 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.

1Gaziantep (Antep)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Gaziantep (Antep)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Eb

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Eb

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 30

    2. Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 30

  3. 3

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 4 recorded years

    Eb

    AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Eb

      All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1907/08 (AH 1325)

      Eb / Place not recorded

      Within-year entry order unresolved

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

        All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1908/09 (AH 1326) · 3 recorded years

        Place not recorded

        AH entries: 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

        Within-year entry order unresolved

        Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

        1. İdadi muavin-i sanisi

          450 kuruşCalculated age 36

          Continuing service as described

        2. İdadi Fransızca muallimi

          116 kuruşCalculated age 38

        All 19 recorded entries in this stage →

      10 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 10 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
      1902/03 (AH 1320)1,080400150 to 1,50084.1%1627
      1903/04 (AH 1321)1,080405150 to 1,45084.1%1578
      1904/05 (AH 1322)1,080400135 to 1,50084.0%1493
      1905/06 (AH 1323)1,080430125 to 1,50083.8%1423
      1906/07 (AH 1324)850450150 to 1,52574.2%1371
      1907/08 (AH 1325)850460135 to 1,61574.1%1290
      1908/09 (AH 1326)450400150 to 2,00050.8%1232
      1909/10 (AH 1327)533600200 to 2,00047.8%1088
      1910/11 (AH 1328)333500200 to 2,00030.4%732

      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. Eb6
        1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)

      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. Eb850 to 1,080

      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. 1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)
      2. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
      3. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
      4. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
      5. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
      6. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

      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; Ulûm-ı Arabiyye icazetnamesi; âlâ derecede rüştiye şubesi şehadetnamesi [1]

      Schooling Darülmuallimîn rüştiye şubesi; Bayezid Camii dersiamı Emin Efendi'den özel ders [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 Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Gaziantepli memurlar

        EDA CEREN ERKABALCI · 2019 · Pages 127, 128

        BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 181/182.; 264 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 181/182.

      Read the original source accounts · 41 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 31 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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