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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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Mehmet Nafiz Bey

Born Year not recorded · Foča (Foça) · Dated entries 1898 to 1909 (AH 1316 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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.

Elbasan (İlbasan)PrizrenPljevlja (Taşlıca)Foča (Foça)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Hüdavendigar

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Hüdavendigar

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdavendigar

    1. Ticaret mahkemesi başkâtibi

      500 kuruş

  2. 2

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Hüdavendigar / Elbasan (İlbasan)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdavendigar

    1. Hüdavendigar

      Ticaret mahkemesi başkâtibi

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Elbasan (İlbasan)

      Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,260 kuruş

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 2 recorded years

    Elbasan (İlbasan)

    AH entries: 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,260 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,260 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Elbasan (İlbasan) / Prizren

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Elbasan (İlbasan)

      Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,260 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Prizren

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,260 kuruş

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 5 recorded years

    Prizren

    AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,260 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      2,000 kuruş

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Prizren / Pljevlja (Taşlıca)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Prizren

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      2,000 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pljevlja (Taşlıca)

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,500 kuruş

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.

  • İstinaf mahkemesi müddeiumumilik kalemi mülazımı · Hüdavendigar · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Birth · Foča (Foça) · Year not recorded
  • First work as recorded · Hüdavendigar · Year not recorded

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
1898/99 (AH 1316)500400144 to 1,40055.8%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)1,260400140 to 1,44088.5%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)1,260400140 to 1,50088.3%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)1,260400150 to 1,52086.7%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)1,260400150 to 1,50087.8%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,260405150 to 1,45088.0%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)1,260400135 to 1,50087.7%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,260430125 to 1,50087.5%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,260450150 to 1,52586.1%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)2,000460135 to 1,61591.9%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)2,000400150 to 2,00090.0%1232

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. 1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  2. 1899 to 1903 (AH 1317 to 1320)
  3. Hüdavendigar2
    1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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. Prizren1,260 to 2,000
  2. Hüdavendigar500

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. 1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  2. 1899 to 1903 (AH 1317 to 1320)
  3. 1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 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; Âlâ derecede hukuk şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Bosna Rüşdiye Mektebi; Mekteb-i Hukuk-ı Şahane [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 129, 130

Read the original source accounts · 16 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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