Skip to content
Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Osman Paşa

Born 1842/43 (AH 1258) · Nevesin · Dated entries 1863 to 1878 (AH 1280 to 1294)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 1/186

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

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.

Istanbul (Dersaadet)Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Nevesin

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.

4 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1842/43 (AH 1258)

    Nevesin

    Not yet located on the map: Nevesin

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded / İstanbul, Bâb-ı Hümâyun

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; İstanbul, Bâb-ı Hümâyun

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. İstanbul, Bâb-ı Hümâyun

      Kolluk ve atlı silahlı birlik hizmeti

      Calculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1864/65 (AH 1281) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1873/74 (AH 1290)

      İşkodra üzerinden Karadağ

      Not yet located on the map: İşkodra üzerinden Karadağ

        All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

      1. 5

        1875/76 (AH 1292)

        Akhisar

        Not yet located on the map: Akhisar

          All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

        1. 6

          1877/78 (AH 1294)

          Novi Pazar (Yenipazar) / Place not recorded

          Within-year entry order unresolved

          Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

          1. Novi Pazar (Yenipazar)

            Mutasarrıf

            8,550 kuruşCalculated age 36

          2. Place not recorded

            Mutasarrıf

            8,550 kuruşCalculated age 36

        8 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.

        Read all 8 undated entries and their source evidence →

        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
        1875/76 (AH 1292)2,250450150 to 2,00091.1%976
        1877/78 (AH 1294)8,550450150 to 1,80097.4%1160

        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. Akhisar1
          1875/76 (AH 1292)
        2. İstanbul, Bâb-ı Hümâyun1
          1863/64 (AH 1280)
        3. İşkodra üzerinden Karadağ1
          1873/74 (AH 1290)
        4. 1877/78 (AH 1294)

        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. Akhisar2,250

        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. 1863 to 1867 (AH 1280 to 1283)
        2. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
        3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
        4. 1863/64 (AH 1280)
        5. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
        6. 1867/68 (AH 1284)

        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; Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi [1] [2]

        Schooling Nevesin Sıbyan;Mostar Rüşdiye;Salih Efendiden özel tahsil [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. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

          DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 272, 273

        2. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları

          GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 49, 50

          103 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 1/186.; BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 1/186.

        Read the original source accounts · 21 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 · 8 dated AH years

        Annual salary study and register readings

        The separate annual salary reference account has 11 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

        Subjects