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Mustafa Efendi

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Gaziantep (Antep) · Dated entries 1879 to 1896 (AH 1297 to 1313)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 145/88

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.

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

Stage 1 of 7 · 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.

  1. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Emlak Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    1. Aşar Memuru

      Calculated age 22

    2. Aşar Memuru

      Calculated age 23

  4. 4

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    1. Aşar Memuru

      Calculated age 25

  5. 5

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 9 recorded years

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ağnam muaddili

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi refakati

      250 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Gaziantep (Antep) / Kilis

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Gaziantep (Antep)

      Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi refakati

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kilis

      Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Kilis

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 37

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.

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
1885/86 (AH 1303)500400150 to 1,50058.1%1787
1887/88 (AH 1305)650400150 to 1,50071.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)200400125 to 1,50015.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)250400140 to 1,40021.2%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)250400140 to 1,50021.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)600400140 to 1,50064.9%1981

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. 1879 to 1895 (AH 1297 to 1312)
  2. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

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. Kilis200 to 600

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. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  2. 1886 to 1890 (AH 1304 to 1307)
  3. 1891 to 1894 (AH 1309 to 1311)
  4. 1885 to 1888 (AH 1303 to 1305)
  5. 1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
  6. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

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; cami-i şerif [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Gaziantepli memurlar

    EDA CEREN ERKABALCI · 2019 · Pages 122, 123

    BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 145/88.; 257 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 145/88.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 23 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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