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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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Nikolaki Dosyos Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1881 to 1894 (AH 1299 to 1311)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 7 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 25

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      400 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      400 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Place not recorded / Trieste

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Place not recorded

      Hariciye Nezareti Umur-ı Şehbenderi Kalemi mülazımı

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Trieste

      Trieste Şehbenderhanesi kançılarlığı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 3 recorded years

    Trieste

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Trieste

    1. Trieste Şehbenderhanesi kançılarlığı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Trieste Şehbenderhanesi kançılarlığı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Trieste / İbrail

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trieste; İbrail

    1. Trieste

      Trieste Şehbenderhanesi kançılarlığı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. İbrail

      İbrail Şehbenderhanesi kançılarlığı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 34

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
1886/87 (AH 1304)400400150 to 1,50045.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)400400150 to 1,50043.8%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)400400135 to 1,50045.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,000400130 to 1,50081.1%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,000400125 to 1,50079.8%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,000400140 to 1,60080.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,000400135 to 1,50080.8%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,000400140 to 1,40081.7%1929

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. Trieste5
    1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  2. İbrail1
    1893/94 (AH 1311)

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. Trieste1,000
  2. İbrail1,000

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 1890 (AH 1299 to 1307)
  2. 1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  3. 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 Fener Rum Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 246, 247

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 · 12 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 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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