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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Rıza Efendi

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Kobe (Kobeci), Dağıstan · Dated entries 1880 to 1888 (AH 1298 to 1305)

Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 40/397

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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 6 · Kobe (Kobeci), Dağıstan

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.

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

  1. 1

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Kobe (Kobeci), Dağıstan

    Not yet located on the map: Kobe (Kobeci), Dağıstan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Trabzon Vilayeti / Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trabzon Vilayeti; Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Trabzon Vilayeti

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

      Vilayet muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi / Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi; Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

    1. Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

      Vilayet muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

      Merkez Liva muhasebesi evrak mukayyidi

      140 kuruşCalculated age 16

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

    1. Merkez Liva muhasebesi evrak mukayyidi

      140 kuruşCalculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Merkez Liva muhasebesi evrak mukayyidi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi / Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi; Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi

      Merkez Liva muhasebesi evrak mukayyidi (Nakil)

      Calculated age 20

      Recorded service ending

    2. Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

      Vilayet muhasebe kalemi memuru

      160 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Vilayet muhasebe kalemi memuru

      160 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet muhasebe kalemi memuru

      225 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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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.

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
1881/82 (AH 1299)140400150 to 1,5008.3%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)150400150 to 1,4008.6%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)150400150 to 1,4008.6%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)150400150 to 1,5008.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)160400150 to 1,50011.2%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)200400150 to 1,50013.3%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)225400150 to 1,50019.0%1762

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. Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi5
    1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  2. Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi5
    1880 to 1888 (AH 1298 to 1305)

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. Trabzon Merkez Livası Muhasebesi140 to 150
  2. Trabzon Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi150 to 225

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. 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  2. 1885 to 1888 (AH 1303 to 1305)
  3. 1880 to 1882 (AH 1298 to 1299)

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; Şahadetname [1]

Schooling Trabzon Vilayeti 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 Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dağıstanlılar

    SAİT ARAS · 2023 · Pages 267, 268

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 40/397

Read the original source accounts · 16 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 · 8 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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