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Mihalaki Aklos Efendi

Born 1836/37 (AH 1252) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1854 to 1889 (AH 1271 to 1306)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Rhodes (Rodos)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

    1836/37 (AH 1252)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Rhodes (Rodos)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Karantinahane tercümanı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1855/56 (AH 1272) · 2 recorded years

    Rhodes (Rodos)

    AH entries: 1272, 1273. Gaps remain open.

    1. Karantinahane tercümanı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Karantinahane tercümanı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Rhodes (Rodos) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Rhodes (Rodos)

      Karantinahane tercümanı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 22

  5. 5

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 16 recorded years

    Şire

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şire

    1. Şehbender

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Şehbender

      3,800 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    All 18 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 49

  7. 7

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Taygan

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Taygan

    1. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 52

    2. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 53

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Taygan / Trieste

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Taygan; Trieste

    1. Taygan

      Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    2. Trieste

      Başşehbender

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 54

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
1854/55 (AH 1271)150400100 to 5,00013.6%67
1855/56 (AH 1272)150400100 to 5,00017.2%65
1856/57 (AH 1273)150400100 to 5,00014.7%76
1857/58 (AH 1274)150400100 to 3,00013.7%96
1868/69 (AH 1285)3,000475150 to 3,00089.9%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)3,000400150 to 2,25091.9%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)3,000400150 to 2,00092.6%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)3,000420.5125 to 2,37591.4%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)3,000450140 to 2,35091.8%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)3,000405130 to 2,20092.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)3,000450150 to 1,80093.5%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)4,000450150 to 2,00095.2%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)4,000420150 to 2,00095.8%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)3,800450150 to 1,80095.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)3,800450150 to 2,00095.7%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)3,800400150 to 2,00095.0%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)3,800400180 to 1,80095.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)3,800400160 to 1,50096.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)3,800400150 to 1,50096.8%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)3,800400150 to 1,40097.5%1655
1886/87 (AH 1304)2,000400150 to 1,50092.9%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)2,000400150 to 1,50092.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)3,000400135 to 1,50096.2%1797

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. Şire16
    1868 to 1883 (AH 1285 to 1300)
  2. 1854 to 1858 (AH 1271 to 1274)
  3. Taygan3
    1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  4. Trieste1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)

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. Şire3,000 to 4,000
  2. Taygan2,000
  3. Trieste3,000

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. 1868 to 1889 (AH 1285 to 1306)
  2. 1854 to 1858 (AH 1271 to 1274)
  3. 1857 to 1884 (AH 1274 to 1301)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 274

Read the original source accounts · 28 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 · 24 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 28 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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