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MUSTAFA NAZMİ EFENDİ

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Varna · Dated entries 1866 to 1897 (AH 1283 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 123/163

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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Varna

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.

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

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Varna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Varna

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Temyiz-i Hukuk Mahkemesi mülazımı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 15

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1867/68 (AH 1284) · 11 recorded years

    Varna

    AH entries: 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Temyiz-i Hukuk Mahkemesi mülazımı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Divan-ı Harp müstantiki

      Calculated age 26

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Varna / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Varna

      Meclis-i Temyiz-i Cinayet müstantik muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 27

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

    Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü

    AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü

    1. Sandık memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Sandık memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü; Location not recorded

    1. Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü

      Sandık memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 46

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
1866/67 (AH 1283)50400146 to 2,0002.8%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)150458150 to 2,5008.1%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)150475150 to 3,0008.1%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)300400150 to 2,25031.7%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)300400150 to 2,00030.7%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)300420.5125 to 2,37530.4%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)300450140 to 2,35031.7%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)300405130 to 2,20032.6%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)300450150 to 1,80030.2%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)300450150 to 2,00028.5%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)300450150 to 1,80029.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)550450150 to 2,00062.9%1196
1894/95 (AH 1312)350400140 to 1,50039.7%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)350400140 to 1,50038.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)350450150 to 1,57536.8%2119

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. 1866 to 1878 (AH 1283 to 1295)
  2. Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü3
    1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 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. Varna50 to 550
  2. Manyas Gölü Eski Karan köyü350

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. 1869 to 1878 (AH 1286 to 1295)
  2. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  3. 1867 to 1870 (AH 1284 to 1286)
  4. 1866 to 1868 (AH 1283 to 1284)
  5. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
  6. 1878 (AH 1295)

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; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Varna sıbyan mektebi; Varna rüşdiyesi [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 Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Varnalı devlet adamları

    İSA ÖZHAN · 2024 · Pages 176, 177

    BOA. DH. SAİDd., 123/163; 311 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 123/163.

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 16 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 25 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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