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Süleyman Fahri Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Pristina (Priştine) · Dated entries 1875 to 1897 (AH 1292 to 1314)

Languages Bulgarian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 82-199

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

1Pristina (Priştine)Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Pristina (Priştine)

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

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 12

    2. Emlak Tahriri Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 12

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 12 recorded years

    Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi

    1. İstinaf Mahkemesi Zabıt Kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 17

    2. İstinaf Mahkemesi Zabıt Kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi / Place not recorded / Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi; Location not recorded

    1. Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi

      İstinaf Mahkemesi Zabıt Kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)

      Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantiki

      600 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 5 recorded years

    Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantiki

      600 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantiki

      540 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)300400150 to 1,40028.3%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)300400150 to 1,50027.9%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)600400140 to 1,60065.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)600400135 to 1,50065.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)600400140 to 1,40065.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)600400140 to 1,50065.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)600400140 to 1,50064.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)600450150 to 1,57564.0%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. Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi13
    1879 to 1892 (AH 1297 to 1309)
  2. 1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)

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. Kosova Vilayeti İstinaf Mahkemesi300

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. 1879 to 1892 (AH 1297 to 1309)
  2. 1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
  4. 1891/92 (AH 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

Schooling Priştine sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Priştineli memurlar

    ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 271, 272

    BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 82-199

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 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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