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Musa Bey

Born 1842/43 (AH 1258) · Dagistan · Dated entries 1873 to 1894 (AH 1290 to 1311)

Languages Russian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 126/63

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1873/74 (AH 1290): Kaymakam, Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma), 1,175 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291): Kaymakam, Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma), 1,175 kuruş1875/76 (AH 1292): Kaymakam, Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma), 1,175 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293): Infisal, place unspecified1892/93 (AH 1310): Ceyrun Memlehası memuru, Ceyrun Memlehası, 600 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311): Ceyrun Memlehası memuru, Ceyrun Memlehası, 600 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311): İstifa, place unspecifiedAH 1290AH 1311
Places and reading notes
  • Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)
  • Ceyrun Memlehası

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

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.

1DagistanBlagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Dagistan

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.

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

  1. 1

    1842/43 (AH 1258)

    Dagistan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 32

    2. Kaymakam

      1,175 kuruşCalculated age 32

  3. 3

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

    Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)

    AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      1,175 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      1,175 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 35

  5. 5

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Ceyrun Memlehası

    Not yet located on the map: Ceyrun Memlehası

    1. Ceyrun Memlehası memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 52

  6. 6

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Ceyrun Memlehası / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ceyrun Memlehası; Location not recorded

    1. Ceyrun Memlehası

      Ceyrun Memlehası memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 53

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 53

2 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.

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.

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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
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,175405130 to 2,20080.6%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)1,175450150 to 1,80082.9%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)1,175450150 to 2,00081.7%976
1892/93 (AH 1310)600400135 to 1,50065.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)600400140 to 1,40065.6%1929

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
0587.51,1751873/74AH 12901883/84AH 13011893/94AH 13111873/74 (AH 1290) · 1,175 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 1,175 kuruş1875/76 (AH 1292) · 1,175 kuruş1892/93 (AH 1310) · 600 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 600 kuruş

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. 1873 to 1876 (AH 1290 to 1292)
  2. Ceyrun Memlehası2
    1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 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. Ceyrun Memlehası600

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. 1873 to 1876 (AH 1290 to 1292)
  2. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  3. 1876/77 (AH 1293)

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

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

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

Personal details

Birthplace
dagistan [source]Dağıstan [1]
Birth year
1842/43 (AH 1258) [source]
Father’s occupation
Dağıstan hanı [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 126/63 [1]

Education and languages

Russian
Tekellüm [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okuryazar [1]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
32 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Yukarı Cuma [source]Cuma-i Bâlâ [1]
First-salary field
1175 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
1873/74 (AH 1290) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dağıstanlılar

    SAİT ARAS · 2023 · Pages 135, 136

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 126/63

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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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 7 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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