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Rıdvan Beyzade Süleyman Bey

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Hersek · Dated entries 1888 to 1910 (AH 1306 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 81/17

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 11 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.

1Hersek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Hersek

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.

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

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Hersek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Şabanözü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şabanözü

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 38

    2. Nahiye Müdürü

      480 kuruşCalculated age 38

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years

    Gökçe

    AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Gökçe

    1. Ağnam memuru

      Calculated age 39

    2. Ağnam memuru

      Calculated age 40

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 4 recorded years

    Durgani

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Durgani

    1. Nahiye müdür vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Nahiye Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Durgani / Place not recorded / Turgan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Durgani; Location not recorded; Turgan

    1. Durgani

      Nahiye Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Turgan

      Nahiye müdür vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 45

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Turgan

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Turgan

    1. Nahiye müdür vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nahiye müdür vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 47

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Place not recorded / Şabanözü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 50

    2. Şabanözü

      Nahiye Müdürü

      Calculated age 50

  8. 8

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Şabanözü

    Not yet located on the map: Şabanözü

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      Calculated age 51

  9. 9

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Şabanözü

    Not yet located on the map: Şabanözü

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      Calculated age 53

  10. 10

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Nevhes

    Not yet located on the map: Nevhes

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      Calculated age 56

  11. 11

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Azil

      Calculated age 59

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

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
1888/89 (AH 1306)480400135 to 1,50054.6%1797
1891/92 (AH 1309)200400140 to 1,60014.9%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)400400135 to 1,50045.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)400400140 to 1,40044.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)200450150 to 1,57512.7%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)200400140 to 1,42515.0%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. Durgani5
    1891 to 1896 (AH 1309 to 1313)
  2. Şabanözü4
    1888 to 1904 (AH 1306 to 1321)
  3. Turgan3
    1895 to 1898 (AH 1313 to 1315)
  4. Gökçe2
    1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  5. Nevhes1
    1906/07 (AH 1324)

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. Durgani200 to 400
  2. Şabanözü480
  3. Turgan200

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. 1888 to 1907 (AH 1306 to 1324)
  2. 1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)
  3. 1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  4. 1900/01 (AH 1318)

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; Rüştiye diploması [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Mostar Rüştiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları

    GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 73, 74, 75, 76

    BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 81/17; 148 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 81/17.

Read the original source accounts · 27 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 · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 20 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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