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Mehmet Nazmi Efendi

Born 1870/71 (AH 1287) · Pristina (Priştine) · Dated entries 1887 to 1900 (AH 1305 to 1317)

Languages Bulgarian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. 132/120

The career, year by year

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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.

1Pristina (Priştine)Mitrovica (Mitroviça)Preševo (Preşova)Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · 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.

  1. 1

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi stajyeri

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 5 recorded years

    Pristina (Priştine)

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi stajyeri

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi stajyeri

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Pristina (Priştine) / Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Pristina (Priştine)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi stajyeri

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci daire görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 24

  5. 5

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 4 recorded years

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci daire görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci daire görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça) / Preševo (Preşova) / Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci daire görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi Savci Muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın) / Pristina (Priştine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi Savci Muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pristina (Priştine)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi sözleşmeler yazıcısı

      Calculated age 30

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

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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.

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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
1893/94 (AH 1311)225400140 to 1,40019.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)225400140 to 1,50020.1%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)225400140 to 1,50019.4%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)225450150 to 1,57517.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)225400140 to 1,42519.3%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821

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. 1887 to 1900 (AH 1305 to 1317)
  2. 1893 to 1899 (AH 1311 to 1316)
  3. 1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  4. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1887 to 1894 (AH 1305 to 1311)
  2. 1893 to 1899 (AH 1311 to 1316)
  3. 1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  4. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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 almış; diploma kayıp [1]

Schooling Priştine Sıbyan ve Rüştiye mektepleri [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 Kosova doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları (1834-1889)

    DÖNDÜ DOĞAN · 2025 · Pages 133

    BOA. DH. SAİD. 132/120; 466 BOA. DH. SAİD. 132/120.; 467 BOA. DH. SAİD. 132/120.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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