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MUSTAFA HİKMET EFENDİ

Born 1874/75 (AH 1291) · Akhisar · Dated entries 1896 to 1901 (AH 1314 to 1318)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1896/97 (AH 1314): Bidayet Mahkemesi kalemi mülazımı, Muş1896/97 (AH 1314): Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi, Bulanık, 225 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315): Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi, Bulanık, 225 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316): Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi, Bulanık, 225 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316): Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantık muavini, Bulanık, 300 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318): Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi (İstifa), BulanıkAH 1314AH 1315AH 1318
Places and reading notes
  • Muş
  • Bulanık

4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

MuşBulanık
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Akhisar

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

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Akhisar

    Not yet located on the map: Akhisar

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Muş / Bulanık

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muş

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Muş

      Bidayet Mahkemesi kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

    3. Bulanık

      Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 2 recorded years

    Bulanık

    AH entries: 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    3. Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantık muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

  4. 4

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Bulanık

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 27

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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
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

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01503001896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161896/97 (AH 1314) · 225 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315) · 225 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · 225 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · 300 kuruş

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. 1896 to 1901 (AH 1314 to 1318)
  2. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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. Bulanık225 to 300

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 1899 (AH 1314 to 1316)
  2. 1900/01 (AH 1318)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  4. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

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 İbtidai mektebi; İzmir İdadi Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Akhisar [source]
Birth year
1874/75 (AH 1291) [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
Aşina [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Rum (as recorded)
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
İbtidai mektebi; İzmir İdadi Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
9 [source]4 (original schooling-year field) [1]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
23 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Muş [source]
First work year
1896/97 (AH 1314) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Akhisarlı devlet adamları

    MELİHA AKDOĞAN · 2020 · Pages 58, 59

Read the original source accounts · 7 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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 6 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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