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Born 1834/35 (AH 1250) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1873 to 1883 (AH 1290 to 1300)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.8 s. 527; BOA, DH SAİD nr.8 s.527

The career, year by year

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

Follow 6 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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Safranbolu

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

    1834/35 (AH 1250)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 40

    2. Mülazım

      Calculated age 40

  3. 3

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

    Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi

    AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi

    1. Mülazım

      Calculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mülazım

      Calculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi / Eflani

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi; Eflani

    1. Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi

      Mülazım

      Calculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Eflani

      nahiye vukuat katibi

      235 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 6 recorded years

    Eflani

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Eflani

    1. nahiye vukuat katibi

      235 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrir ve vergi katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 49

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Eflani / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Eflani

      tahrir ve vergi katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 50

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.

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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)235420150 to 2,00020.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)235450150 to 1,80020.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)235450150 to 2,00020.7%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)235400150 to 2,00018.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)235400180 to 1,80016.4%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)250400160 to 1,50020.5%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)250400150 to 1,50020.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)250400150 to 1,40019.4%1655

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. Eflani8
    1876 to 1883 (AH 1293 to 1300)
  2. Zağfiranbolu tahrir ve vergi kalemi4
    1873 to 1877 (AH 1290 to 1293)

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. Eflani235 to 250

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 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298)
  2. 1873 to 1877 (AH 1290 to 1293)
  3. 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 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

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; muallim-i mahsus [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 83, 84

    51 BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.8 s. 527; BOA, DH SAİD nr.8 s.527

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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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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