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Mustafa Salih Reşid Beğ

Born 1862/63 (AH 1279) · Ioannina (Yanya) · Dated entries 1881 to 1902 (AH 1299 to 1319)

Languages Turkish

Archival references DH.SAİDd, 3-904; CDAB, DH.SAİDd, 3-904

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1Ioannina (Yanya)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Sivas
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Ioannina (Yanya)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi namzedi

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 4 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi namzedi

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi hulefâsı

      1,660 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi hulefâsı

      1,660 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi üçüncü sınıf hulefâsı

      1,880 kuruşCalculated age 25

  5. 5

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi üçüncü sınıf hulefâsı

      1,880 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi üçüncü sınıf hulefâsı

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Âmedî-i Divân-ı Hümâyun Kalemi üçüncü sınıf hulefâsı

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Meclis-i Mahsus zabıt kâtibi; Âmedî ikinci sınıf hulefâsı

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Meclis-i Mahsus zabıt kâtibi; Âmedî ikinci sınıf hulefâsı

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Meclis-i Mahsus zabıt kâtibi; Âmedî ikinci sınıf hulefâsı

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Place not recorded / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Meclis-i Mahsus zabıt kâtibi; Âmedî ikinci sınıf hulefâsı

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Şûrâ-yı Devlet âzası

      5,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

  9. 9

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 6 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Şûrâ-yı Devlet âzası

      5,000 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi âzası

      10,000 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Sivas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi âzası

      10,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sivas

      Sivas valisi

      18,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,500400150 to 1,40090.1%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,500400150 to 1,40090.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)1,660400150 to 1,50091.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,660400150 to 1,50091.6%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)1,880400150 to 1,50092.7%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)2,000400150 to 1,50092.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)2,000400135 to 1,50092.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)2,000400130 to 1,50092.9%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)2,250400125 to 1,50094.3%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,500400140 to 1,60094.7%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)2,500400135 to 1,50095.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)3,000400140 to 1,40096.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)5,000400140 to 1,50098.0%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)5,000400140 to 1,50097.5%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)5,000450150 to 1,57597.9%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)4,500400140 to 1,42598.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)6,500400144 to 1,40099.0%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)10,000400140 to 1,44099.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)10,000400140 to 1,50099.2%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)18,000400150 to 1,52099.3%1666

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. 1881 to 1902 (AH 1299 to 1319)
  2. 1901/02 (AH 1319)

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. Istanbul (Dersaadet)1,500 to 10,000
  2. Sivas18,000

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. 1896 to 1902 (AH 1314 to 1319)
  2. 1882 to 1887 (AH 1300 to 1304)
  3. 1886 to 1891 (AH 1304 to 1308)
  4. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)
  5. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  6. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 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 Mekteb-i Sultânî; özel öğretmenler [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]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval kayıtlarına göre Şûrâ-yı Devlet reisleri

    BURAK BALCI · 2025 · Pages 124, 125, 126, 127

    DH.SAİDd, 3-904; 159 CDAB, DH.SAİDd, 3-904

Read the original source accounts · 35 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 · 21 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 35 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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