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İskender Bey

Born Year not recorded · Kars · Dated entries 1858 to 1903 (AH 1275 to 1320)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 3/834; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 3/834

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Life and career

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KarsHınısMalazgirtMuradiye (Bargiri)GevaşHamidiyeKarcikan
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 15 · Place not recorded

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Asakir-i Müstahfız Yüzbaşısı

      500 kuruş

  2. 2

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Kars

    1. İskan-ı Muhacirin Çerakise Memuru

      400 kuruş

  3. 3

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Soğanlı Cibali

    Not yet located on the map: Soğanlı Cibali

    1. Kır Kumandanı

      400 kuruş

  4. 4

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Kars Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Kars Sancağı

    1. Temyiz Meclisi Hukuk Mümeyyizi

      400 kuruş

  5. 5

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 4 recorded years

    Hınıs

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,300 kuruş

    2. Kaymakam (İnfisal)

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  6. 6

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years

    Malazgirt

    AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruş

    2. Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Malazgirt / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Malazgirt

      Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

  8. 8

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Muradiye (Bargiri)

    1. Kaymakam

      1,215 kuruş

  9. 9

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Gevaş

    1. Kaymakam

      1,215 kuruş

  10. 10

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Azil

  11. 11

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Hamidiye

    1. Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruş

  12. 12

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Mahmudi

    Not yet located on the map: Mahmudi

    1. Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruş

  13. 13

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Karcikan

    1. Kaymakam

  14. 14

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Müküs

    Not yet located on the map: Müküs

    1. Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruş

  15. 15

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Müküs / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Müküs

      Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

5 entries 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

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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.

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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
1858/59 (AH 1275)500500150 to 5,00046.2%105
1863/64 (AH 1280)400475125 to 3,00042.9%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)400400125 to 3,00047.6%253
1866/67 (AH 1283)400400146 to 2,00043.0%399
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,300450150 to 1,80084.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)1,300450150 to 2,00085.3%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,300400150 to 2,00083.2%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)1,300400180 to 1,80085.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)1,350400160 to 1,50088.5%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)1,350400150 to 1,50088.3%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,350400150 to 1,40088.8%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)1,215400150 to 1,50086.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,215400150 to 1,50085.8%1787
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,500400140 to 1,60094.7%1927
1897/98 (AH 1315)2,250400140 to 1,42594.3%1891
1901/02 (AH 1319)2,250400150 to 1,52093.9%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)2,250400150 to 1,50095.0%1627

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1877 to 1880 (AH 1294 to 1297)
  2. 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300)
  3. Müküs2
    1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)
  6. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

The six most recorded places. 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. Hınıs1,300
  3. Müküs2,250
  4. Gevaş1,215
  6. Kars400

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1877 to 1903 (AH 1294 to 1320)
  2. 1858/59 (AH 1275)
  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  4. 1863/64 (AH 1280)
  5. 1864/65 (AH 1281)
  6. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)

    RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ · 2015 · Pages 84, 85

    63 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 3/834.; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 3/834

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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