Süleyman Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Gelibolu · Dated entries 1866 to 1899 (AH 1283 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 118/451

The career, year by year

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The life

Süleyman Efendi was born in Gelibolu. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Gelibolu Telgrafhanesi. Dated career entries span 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 1898/99 (AH 1316) across 33 AH years, from Komotini (Gümülcine) to Ermiye, beginning with Telgraf merkezi memuru and ending with entries for Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Komotini (Gümülcine), Keşan, Yambol (Yanbolu) and Gelibolu and 2 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 400 kuruş in 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 640 kuruş in 1898/99 (AH 1316); the highest recorded monthly rate is 855 kuruş in 1874/75 (AH 1291).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Gelibolu · Year not recorded^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi^[source]
First work: Gelibolu Telgrafhanesi^[source]

Career in numbers

33
Dated AH years: 7
Career place names: 1
Entries without a resolved year: 24
Salary years: 400 → 640
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 855
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 72.0%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 1898/99 (AH 1316); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1898/99 (AH 1316).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 12 · Komotini (Gümülcine)

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1
1866/67 (AH 1283)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
1. Telgraf merkezi memuru
  400 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2
1868/69 (AH 1285) · 2 recorded years
Keşan
AH entries: 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.
1. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  400 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  400 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Keşan / Place not recorded / Yambol (Yanbolu)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Keşan
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  400 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Yambol (Yanbolu)
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  480 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1871/72 (AH 1288) · 2 recorded years
Yambol (Yanbolu)
AH entries: 1288, 1289. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  455 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1873/74 (AH 1290)
Yambol (Yanbolu) / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Yambol (Yanbolu)
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  455 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1874/75 (AH 1291)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  855 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1875/76 (AH 1292)
Komotini (Gümülcine) / Gelibolu
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Komotini (Gümülcine)
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  855 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gelibolu
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  570 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1876/77 (AH 1293) · 8 recorded years
Gelibolu
AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  500 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 10 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1883/84 (AH 1301)
Gelibolu / Ayvalık
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Gelibolu
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  500 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ayvalık
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1884/85 (AH 1302) · 6 recorded years
Ayvalık
AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.
1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1890/91 (AH 1308)
Ayvalık / Ermiye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ermiye
1. Ayvalık
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ermiye
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1891/92 (AH 1309) · 8 recorded years
Ermiye
AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ermiye
1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  640 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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.

Telgraf mülazımı · Gelibolu Telgrafhanesi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Birth · Gelibolu · Year not recorded
First work as recorded · Gelibolu Telgrafhanesi · 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

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1866/67 (AH 1283)	400	400	146 to 2,000	43.0%	399
1868/69 (AH 1285)	400	475	150 to 3,000	40.9%	505
1869/70 (AH 1286)	400	400	150 to 2,250	44.6%	609
1870/71 (AH 1287)	480	400	150 to 2,000	53.5%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	455	420.5	125 to 2,375	51.2%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	455	450	140 to 2,350	51.3%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	455	405	130 to 2,200	52.1%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	855	450	150 to 1,800	74.4%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	855	450	150 to 2,000	74.1%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	600	420	150 to 2,000	64.1%	1102
1879/80 (AH 1297)	500	400	180 to 1,800	57.9%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	500	400	160 to 1,500	61.0%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	500	400	150 to 1,500	60.9%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	500	400	150 to 1,400	60.0%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	600	400	150 to 1,400	68.1%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	600	400	150 to 1,500	67.7%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	600	400	150 to 1,500	66.1%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	600	400	150 to 1,500	66.1%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	600	400	150 to 1,500	64.2%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	600	400	135 to 1,500	66.2%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	600	400	130 to 1,500	66.3%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	600	400	125 to 1,500	65.5%	1896
1896/97 (AH 1314)	540	450	150 to 1,575	61.1%	2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)	640	400	144 to 1,400	72.0%	1844

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Gelibolu10
1875 to 1884 (AH 1292 to 1301)
Ermiye9
1890 to 1899 (AH 1308 to 1316)
Ayvalık8
1883 to 1891 (AH 1301 to 1308)
Yambol (Yanbolu)4
1870 to 1874 (AH 1287 to 1290)
Keşan3
1868 to 1871 (AH 1285 to 1287)
Komotini (Gümülcine)3
1866 to 1876 (AH 1283 to 1292)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Gelibolu500 to 600
Ermiye540 to 640
Ayvalık600
Yambol (Yanbolu)455 to 480
Keşan400
Komotini (Gümülcine)400 to 855

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

Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü18
1874 to 1899 (AH 1291 to 1316)
Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru16
1868 to 1884 (AH 1285 to 1301)
Infisal1
1873/74 (AH 1290)
Telgraf merkezi memuru1
1866/67 (AH 1283)

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Related officials in the salary reference

Gelibolu126 other officialsİsmail Hakkı İsmet Efendi born 1818/19 (AH 1234); highest salary 4,000 kuruş
Gelibolu22 other officialsAtnaş Efendi 9 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
1866/67 (AH 1283)95 other officialsÇerkeşşeyhîzâde Seyyid Mehmed Tevfik Efendi first entry in Cairo (Kahire); no salary recorded

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Gelibolu doğumlu memurlar (1879-1909)
OSMAN UMUT NAL · 2026 · Pages 151, 152
BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 118/451; 13 Mart 1897 tarihinde 540 kuruşa indirilen maaşı, 22 Haziran 1898 tarihinde 640 kuruşa yükseltilmiştir (BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 118/451).; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 118/451

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