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TAHİR EFENDİ

Born 1870/71 (AH 1287) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1887 to 1904 (AH 1305 to 1321)

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00111_00066

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1Kirkuk (Kerkük)CedideIstanbul (Dersaadet)Derince
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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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

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Kerkük Telgrafhanesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük Telgrafhanesi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Mülazım (telgraf)

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 2 recorded years

    Cedide

    AH entries: 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      Calculated age 24

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere ve ittihad başmemuru (Azil)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

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  4. 4

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Altunköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Altunköprü

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 27

  6. 6

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Yalavadağ hamleleri / Gazze

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yalavadağ hamleleri; Gazze

    1. Yalavadağ hamleleri

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 32

    2. Gazze

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

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  7. 7

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Derince

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      495 kuruşCalculated age 34

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

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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

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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
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)600450150 to 1,57564.0%2119
1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666
1903/04 (AH 1321)495405150 to 1,45053.8%1578

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
  2. Altunköprü1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)
  3. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  4. Gazze1
    1901/02 (AH 1319)
  5. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  6. Kerkük Telgrafhanesi1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)

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. Altunköprü540 to 600
  3. Gazze500
  5. Yalavadağ hamleleri400

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 1904 (AH 1311 to 1321)
  2. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  3. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  4. 1901/02 (AH 1319)
  5. 1894/95 (AH 1312)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Bağdat Askeri Rüşdiyesi; Mekteb-i Harbiye (tamamlanmadı) [source]

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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 169, 170, 171

    161 DH_SAİD,00111_00066

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 7 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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