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Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1890 to 1896 (AH 1308 to 1313)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00117_00156

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1890/91 (AH 1308): Ağnam ve zebhiye tadad kâtibi, Kerkük kasabası1890/91 (AH 1308): Tahrir-i vergi idaresi mülazımı, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 0 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311): Üçüncü kol ağnam kâtibi, Kerkük kazası1893/94 (AH 1311): Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 0 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312): Tahrirat refiki, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 40 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312): Tahrirat refiki, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 60 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313): Tahrirat refiki, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 60 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313): Tahrirat refiki (İnfisal), Kirkuk (Kerkük)1895/96 (AH 1313): Duyun-ı Umumiye memuru, Köprü, Kerkük, 250 kuruşAH 1308AH 1313
Places and reading notes
  • Kerkük kasabası
  • Kirkuk (Kerkük)
  • Kerkük kazası
  • Köprü, Kerkük

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 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Kerkük kasabası / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük kasabası

    1. Kerkük kasabası

      Ağnam ve zebhiye tadad kâtibi

      Calculated age 18

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      Tahrir-i vergi idaresi mülazımı

      0 kuruşCalculated age 18

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Kerkük kazası / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük kazası

    1. Kerkük kazası

      Üçüncü kol ağnam kâtibi

      Calculated age 21

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      0 kuruşCalculated age 21

  5. 5

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat refiki

      40 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Tahrirat refiki

      60 kuruşCalculated age 22

  6. 6

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük) / Köprü, Kerkük

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Köprü, Kerkük

    1. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      Tahrirat refiki

      60 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      Tahrirat refiki (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 23

    3. Köprü, Kerkük

      Duyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

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
1894/95 (AH 1312)60400140 to 1,5002.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)250400140 to 1,50020.7%1981

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01252501890/91AH 13081893/94AH 13111895/96AH 13131890/91 (AH 1308) · 0 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 0 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 40 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 60 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 60 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 250 kuruş

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● 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. 1890 to 1896 (AH 1308 to 1313)
  2. Kerkük kasabası1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)
  3. Kerkük kazası1
    1893/94 (AH 1311)
  4. Köprü, Kerkük1
    1895/96 (AH 1313)

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. Köprü, Kerkük250

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. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  2. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  3. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  5. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  6. 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 Sıbyan 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

Birthplace
Kerkük [source]
Birth province
Musul [source]
Birth year
1873/74 (AH 1290) [source]
Father’s occupation
Hazret-i Şehriyari dua-gûyanından (vazifeli) [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
DH_SAİD,00117_00156 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Kerkük [source]
First-salary field
0 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
1888/89 (AH 1306) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 168, 169

    160 DH_SAİD,00117_00156

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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