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Mahmut Enver Efendi

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Sarajevo (Saraybosna) · Dated entries 1888 to 1900 (AH 1306 to 1317)

Archival references BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 77/183; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 77/183; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 77/183, s.183

The career, year by year

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1Sarajevo (Saraybosna)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Sarajevo (Saraybosna)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Sarajevo (Saraybosna)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi görevlisi

      30 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Place not recorded / Tebriz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Tebriz

    1. Place not recorded

      Umûr-ı Şehbenderî Kalemi

      30 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tebriz

      Başşehbenderhane kançılaryası görevlisi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Tebriz

    Not yet located on the map: Tebriz

    1. Başşehbenderhane kançılaryası görevlisi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Tebriz / Savcıbulak

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tebriz; Savcıbulak

    1. Tebriz

      Başşehbenderhane kançılaryası görevlisi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Savcıbulak

      Şehbender

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

  7. 7

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Taviçbılağ / Tebriz / Savcıbulak

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Taviçbılağ; Tebriz; Savcıbulak

    1. Taviçbılağ

      Şehbender vekili

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Savcıbulak

      Şehbender (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 28

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 4 recorded years

    Tebriz

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tebriz

    1. Başşehbenderhane kançılaryası görevlisi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Başşehbenderhane kançılaryası görevlisi

      Calculated age 32

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Posta / Parti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Posta; Parti

    1. Posta

      Şehbender

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Parti

      Şehbender

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 33

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.

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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
1890/91 (AH 1308)30400125 to 1,5001.3%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,000400140 to 1,60080.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,000400135 to 1,50080.8%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,000400140 to 1,40081.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,000400140 to 1,50080.7%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,000400140 to 1,50080.4%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,000450150 to 1,57579.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)675400140 to 1,42574.3%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)675400144 to 1,40072.9%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)1,800400140 to 1,44092.8%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. Tebriz8
    1891 to 1899 (AH 1309 to 1316)
  2. Savcıbulak2
    1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
  3. Parti1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. Posta1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  5. Taviçbılağ1
    1894/95 (AH 1312)

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. Tebriz675 to 1,000
  2. Savcıbulak500
  3. Parti1,800
  4. Posta1,800
  5. Taviçbılağ500

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. 1891 to 1899 (AH 1309 to 1316)
  2. 1896 to 1899 (AH 1314 to 1316)
  3. 1893 to 1900 (AH 1311 to 1317)
  4. 1888 to 1891 (AH 1306 to 1308)
  5. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)
  6. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)

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 [source]

Schooling Mekteb-i Sultani [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

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

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 137

    180 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 77/183. 123; BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 77/183.

  2. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 202, 203

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 77/183; 299 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 77/183, s.183.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 77/183, s.183.

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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 · 12 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 28 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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