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İliya Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)

Languages Bulgarian, French, Rum (as recorded), Russian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00189/00046, s. 46

The career, year by year

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

1909/10 (AH 1327): posta kâtibi, Kavala, 400 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): posta kâtibi (Nakil), Kavala1909/10 (AH 1327): posta muavini, Kavala, 400 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328): posta muavini, Kavala, 400 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328): posta muavini (Nakil), Kavala1910/11 (AH 1328): posta hanesi ikinci sınıf memuru, Thessaloniki (Selanik), 600 kuruşAH 1327AH 1328
Places and reading notes
  • Kavala
  • Thessaloniki (Selanik)

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

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1KavalaThessaloniki (Selanik)Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Kavala

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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

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Kavala

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. posta kâtibi

      400 kuruş

    3. posta kâtibi (Nakil)

      Recorded service ending

    4. posta muavini

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Kavala / Thessaloniki (Selanik)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kavala

      posta muavini

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kavala

      posta muavini (Nakil)

      Recorded service ending

    3. Thessaloniki (Selanik)

      posta hanesi ikinci sınıf memuru

      600 kuruş

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.

  • Birth · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Year not recorded

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

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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.

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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
1909/10 (AH 1327)400600200 to 2,00031.0%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)600500200 to 2,00053.6%732

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
03006001909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281909/10 (AH 1327) · 400 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 400 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · 400 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · 600 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. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
  2. 1910/11 (AH 1328)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
  2. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
  3. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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 İstanbul Alyans mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İstanbul [source]
Nationality or community
Yahudi [source]
Religion
Musevi [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00189/00046, s. 46 [1]

Education and languages

Bulgarian
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
French
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Rum (as recorded)
Tekellüm [source]
Russian
Tekellüm [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Education detail
müfredat dersleri; diploma alınmış ama kaybedilmiş [source]
Education
İstanbul Alyans mektebi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Kavala [source]
First-salary field
400 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
1909/10 (AH 1327) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde İstanbul doğumlu Yahudi ve Rum devlet adamları

    AHMET SÜRMEN · 2011 · Pages 91, 92

    167 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00189/00046, s. 46.

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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 · 2 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 6 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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