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İsmail Celil Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Bursa · Dated entries 1903/04 (AH 1321)

Languages French

Archival reference 122/5; 9

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1903/04 (AH 1321): Bidâyet mahkemesi madde-i umumi muâvinliği, Keşan kazası, 1,000 kuruşAH 1321
Places and reading notes
  • Keşan kazası

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

Follow 2 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.

1Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Bursa

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

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Keşan kazası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keşan kazası

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 33

    2. Bidâyet mahkemesi madde-i umumi muâvinliği

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

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
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,000405150 to 1,45081.4%1578

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
05001,0001903/04AH 13211903/04 (AH 1321) · 1,000 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. Keşan kazası1
    1903/04 (AH 1321)

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. Keşan kazası1,000

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. 1903/04 (AH 1321)

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 Mekâtib-i ibtidâî; mekteb-i rüşdiyesinde; Dersaâdet mekteb-i idadi-i mülkiyesi; hukuk-ı şâhânede [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Bursa [source]Bursa şehrinde [1]
Birth province
Hüdavendigâr [source]
Birth year
1871/72 (AH 1288) [source]
Father’s occupation
Esnaf [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
122/5; 9 [1]

Education and languages

French
okuyub yazdığı [source]
Education
Mekâtib-i ibtidâî; mekteb-i rüşdiyesinde; Dersaâdet mekteb-i idadi-i mülkiyesi; hukuk-ı şâhânede [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
33 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Keşan kazası [source]
First-salary field
1000 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1903/04 (AH 1321) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 189,190

    122/5; 9

Read the original source accounts · 1 source entry →

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 · 1 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 1 entry. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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How to read the records

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