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Mustafa Necib Efendi

Born 1832/33 (AH 1248) · Harput · Dated entries 1852 to 1880 (AH 1269 to 1297)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 3-146

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 14 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.

1HarputSidon (Sayda)Damascus (Şam)Beirut (Beyrut)Ioannina (Yanya)Van
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 14 · Harput

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.

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

  1. 1

    1832/33 (AH 1248)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1852/53 (AH 1269)

    Sidon (Sayda) / Sayda Eyaleti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sayda Eyaleti

    1. Sidon (Sayda)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Sayda Eyaleti

      Meclis-i tahkik kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1853/54 (AH 1270) · 4 recorded years

    Damascus (Şam)

    AH entries: 1270, 1271, 1272, 1273. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahrirat kâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Tahrirat kâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1857/58 (AH 1274) · 2 recorded years

    Arabistan Gümrüğü

    AH entries: 1274, 1275. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Arabistan Gümrüğü

    1. Gümrük kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Gümrük kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1859/60 (AH 1276) · 2 recorded years

    Sayda Eyaleti

    AH entries: 1276, 1277. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Sayda Eyaleti

    1. Evkâf müdürü

      Calculated age 28

    2. Evkâf müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 29

  6. 6

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Beirut (Beyrut) / Bilad-ı Bişara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bilad-ı Bişara

    1. Beirut (Beyrut)

      Emlak Memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Bilad-ı Bişara

      Mal ve tahrirat kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

  7. 7

    1862/63 (AH 1279) · 2 recorded years

    Bilad-ı Bişara

    AH entries: 1279, 1280. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Bilad-ı Bişara

    1. Mal ve tahrirat kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal ve tahrirat kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Sayda Eyaleti / Ioannina (Yanya)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sayda Eyaleti

    1. Sayda Eyaleti

      Meclis-i kebir kâtibi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Ioannina (Yanya)

      Meclis-i kebir kâtibi

      Calculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1865/66 (AH 1282) · 3 recorded years

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    AH entries: 1282, 1283, 1284. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahrirat başkâtibi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat başkâtibi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Midilli Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Midilli Sancağı

    1. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

  11. 11

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti merkezi / Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti merkezi; Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti

    1. Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti merkezi

      Vilayet merkez muhasebecisi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti

      Vilayet mektupçusu

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 38

  12. 12

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 4 recorded years

    Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti

    1. Vilayet mektupçusu

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet mektupçusu

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Şûrâ-yı Bahriye başkâtibi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 43

  14. 14

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 4 recorded years

    Van

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet mektupçusu

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. Vilayet mektupçusu

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 49

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

4 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

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
1852/53 (AH 1269)300400100 to 5,00038.3%48
1853/54 (AH 1270)450400100 to 3,00058.7%64
1854/55 (AH 1271)450400100 to 5,00054.5%67
1855/56 (AH 1272)450400100 to 5,00051.6%65
1856/57 (AH 1273)450400100 to 5,00052.0%76
1857/58 (AH 1274)2,000400100 to 3,00084.2%96
1858/59 (AH 1275)2,000500150 to 5,00082.7%105
1861/62 (AH 1278)2,000500150 to 3,00081.9%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)2,000400140 to 3,00083.7%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)2,000475125 to 3,00081.4%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)3,000400125 to 3,00089.7%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)3,000400150 to 2,00091.8%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)3,000400146 to 2,00093.2%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)3,000458150 to 2,50090.5%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)4,000475150 to 3,00092.5%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)4,500400150 to 2,25095.2%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)4,500400150 to 2,00095.5%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)4,500420.5125 to 2,37594.4%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)4,500450140 to 2,35095.0%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)4,500405130 to 2,20095.0%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)4,000450150 to 1,80095.6%882
1877/78 (AH 1294)3,000450150 to 1,80094.2%1160
1879/80 (AH 1297)3,000400180 to 1,80094.3%1534

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. Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti5
    1869 to 1874 (AH 1286 to 1290)
  2. 1853 to 1857 (AH 1270 to 1273)
  3. 1864 to 1868 (AH 1281 to 1284)
  4. 1877 to 1880 (AH 1294 to 1297)
  5. Bilad-ı Bişara3
    1861 to 1864 (AH 1278 to 1280)
  6. Sayda Eyaleti3
    1852 to 1865 (AH 1269 to 1281)

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. Cezayir Bahr-ı Sefid Vilayeti4,500
  2. Van3,000
  3. Bilad-ı Bişara2,000
  4. Sayda Eyaleti300 to 2,000

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. 1869 to 1880 (AH 1286 to 1297)
  2. 1864 to 1868 (AH 1281 to 1284)
  3. 1853 to 1857 (AH 1270 to 1273)
  4. 1861 to 1864 (AH 1278 to 1280)
  5. 1857 to 1859 (AH 1274 to 1275)
  6. 1861/62 (AH 1278)

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

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
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Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 239, 240

    BOA. DH. SAİD 3-146

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 27 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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