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Yusuf Agâh Efendi

Born 1861/62 (AH 1278) · Antakya · Dated entries 1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)

Languages Arabic, Persian

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.

1AntakyaGaziantep (Antep)Harem (Harim)İskenderun
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Antakya

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. 1

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Antakya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Antakya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 31

    2. Tapu Kâtip Vekili

      Calculated age 31

  3. 3

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Antakya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tapu Kâtip Vekili

      Calculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tapu Kâtip Vekili (Azil)

      Calculated age 32

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 4 recorded years

    Gaziantep (Antep)

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ziraat Bankası Sandığı stajyeri

      Calculated age 33

    2. Ziraat Bankası Sandık Kâtip Refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Gaziantep (Antep) / Harem (Harim) / İskenderun

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Gaziantep (Antep)

      Ziraat Bankası Sandık Kâtip Refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. İskenderun

      Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Muhasebe Kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

    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
1896/97 (AH 1314)250450150 to 1,57518.3%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)400400140 to 1,42545.2%1891

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. 1893 to 1898 (AH 1311 to 1315)
  2. 1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
  3. 1897/98 (AH 1315)
  4. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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. İskenderun330 to 400

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. 1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
  2. 1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
  3. 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
  4. 1897/98 (AH 1315)
  5. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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 Antakya 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 Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

    NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 228

Read the original source accounts · 15 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 · 7 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 14 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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