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Mustafa Nazif Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Dated entries 1884 to 1894 (AH 1302 to 1311)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.123/198

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1884/85 (AH 1302): Aşar memuriyeti 2. kâtibi, Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza, 300 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302): Aşar memuriyeti 2. kâtibi (İnfisal), Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza1886/87 (AH 1304): Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtibi (mülazemetle), Izmir (İzmir)1888/89 (AH 1306): Sandık emini, Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza'), 360 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311): Telgrafhane müdürü, Edirne, 400 kuruşAH 1302AH 1311
Places and reading notes
  • Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza
  • Izmir (İzmir)
  • Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza')
  • Edirne

4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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.

Izmir (İzmir)Edirne
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Place not recorded

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.

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

  1. 1

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Sivas vilayeti, adı belirtilmeyen kaza / Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti, adı belirtilmeyen kaza; Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza

    1. Sivas vilayeti, adı belirtilmeyen kaza

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza

      Aşar memuriyeti 2. kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    3. Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza

      Aşar memuriyeti 2. kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

  3. 3

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Izmir (İzmir)

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtibi (mülazemetle)

      Calculated age 24

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza')

    Not yet located on the map: Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza')

    1. Sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Edirne

    1. Telgrafhane müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

2 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
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
1888/89 (AH 1306)360400135 to 1,50043.1%1797
1893/94 (AH 1311)400400140 to 1,40044.7%1929

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001884/85AH 13021889/90AH 13071893/94AH 13111884/85 (AH 1302) · 300 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306) · 360 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 400 kuruş

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. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  2. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  3. Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza')1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)
  4. Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)

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. Sevki kazası (bağlam: 'aynı kaza')360
  2. Sivas vilayetinde adı belirtilmeyen kaza300

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. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
  2. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  3. 1888/89 (AH 1306)
  4. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 Kemah sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birth year
1863/64 (AH 1280) [source]
Father’s occupation
Rüsumat memuru [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d.123/198 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education detail
Rüştiyede Kelam, Arabi, İzhar ve Farisi dersleri [source]
Education
Kemah sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
22 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Sivas vilayeti, adı belirtilmeyen kaza [source]
First-salary field
300 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1884/85 (AH 1302) [source]
Apprenticeship
1.117066059 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 61

    67 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.123/198.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d.123/198

Read the original source accounts · 7 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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 5 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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