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OSMAN KUDDUSĠ EFENDĠ

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Antalya · Dated entries 1866 to 1890 (AH 1283 to 1307)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00004-0014

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 14 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.

1AntalyaAdanaGülnarErmenekGürünSimavYenişehir
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 14 · Antalya

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

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Antalya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Keçiborlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keçiborlu

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Kaza Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Keçiborlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keçiborlu

    1. Kaza Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaza müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

  4. 4

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Şose yolu işlerinde geçici görevli

      Calculated age 25

  5. 5

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Adı aktarılmamış nahiye

    Not yet located on the map: Adı aktarılmamış nahiye

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 26

  6. 6

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years

    Serik maa Kebir

    AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Serik maa Kebir

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)

      Calculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Adana / Gülnar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Adana

      Vilayet tahsilât komisyonu azası

      0 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Gülnar

      Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 29

  8. 8

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 2 recorded years

    Gülnar

    AH entries: 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Gülnar / Ermenek / Bağra

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bağra

    1. Gülnar

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 33

    2. Ermenek

      Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 33

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 6 recorded years

    Gürün

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Gürün / Simav / Germasti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Germasti

    1. Gürün

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Germasti

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 40

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Germasti

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Germasti

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  13. 13

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Germasti / Yenişehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Germasti

    1. Germasti

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yenişehir

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 43

  14. 14

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 4 recorded years

    Yenişehir

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 47

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1866/67 (AH 1283)500400146 to 2,00055.0%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)500458150 to 2,50052.5%435
1869/70 (AH 1286)400400150 to 2,25044.6%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)400400150 to 2,00044.9%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)400420.5125 to 2,37542.9%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)1,350450140 to 2,35083.0%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,350405130 to 2,20083.2%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)1,350450150 to 1,80085.1%882
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,350420150 to 2,00084.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,750450150 to 1,80088.7%1160
1878 (AH 1295)1,750450150 to 2,00088.4%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,750400150 to 2,00086.7%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)1,575400180 to 1,80088.4%1534
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,250400150 to 1,40086.8%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,250400150 to 1,40087.7%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)1,250400150 to 1,50086.4%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,250400150 to 1,50086.1%1787

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. 1877 to 1883 (AH 1294 to 1300)
  2. 1885 to 1890 (AH 1303 to 1307)
  3. Germasti4
    1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  4. 1872 to 1877 (AH 1289 to 1293)
  5. Keçiborlu2
    1866 to 1868 (AH 1283 to 1284)
  6. Serik maa Kebir2
    1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)

The six most recorded places. 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. Gürün1,575 to 1,750
  2. Germasti1,250
  3. Gülnar1,350
  4. Keçiborlu500
  5. Serik maa Kebir400

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1872 to 1890 (AH 1289 to 1307)
  2. 1869 to 1877 (AH 1286 to 1293)
  3. 1866 to 1868 (AH 1283 to 1284)
  4. 1871/72 (AH 1288)
  5. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  6. 1872/73 (AH 1289)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Mülkiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; özel hoca; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Antalyalı memurlar (1879-1909)

    MEHMET FATİH DEMİRDAŞ · 2019 · Pages 52, 53, 54, 55

    63 BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00004-0014

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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 · 24 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 40 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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