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Yakup Hamdi Bey

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Sivas · Dated entries 1871 to 1876 (AH 1288 to 1292)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00003,s.152

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1871/72 (AH 1288): Boyahane memuru (emaneten idare), Tokat, 250 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290): Nahiye Müdürü, Hafik (Koçhisar), 500 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291): Vilayet evrak müdürü, Hicaz, 870 kuruş1875/76 (AH 1292): Vilayet evrak müdürü, HicazAH 1288AH 1290AH 1292
Places and reading notes
  • Tokat
  • Hafik (Koçhisar)
  • Hicaz

4 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 4 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.

1SivasTokatHafik (Koçhisar)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Sivas

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Tokat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Boyahane memuru (emaneten idare)

      250 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Hafik (Koçhisar)

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

  4. 4

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

    Hicaz

    AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz

    1. Vilayet evrak müdürü

      870 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Vilayet evrak müdürü

      Calculated age 24

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
1871/72 (AH 1288)250420.5125 to 2,37521.7%712
1873/74 (AH 1290)500405130 to 2,20055.9%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)870450150 to 1,80074.8%882

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
04358701871/72AH 12881874/75AH 12911871/72 (AH 1288) · 250 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290) · 500 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 870 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. Hicaz2
    1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)
  2. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
  3. 1871/72 (AH 1288)

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. Hicaz870

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. 1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)
  2. 1871/72 (AH 1288)
  3. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

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

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1851/52 (AH 1268) [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d.nr.00003,s.152 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
20 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Tokat [source]
First-salary field
250 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
1871/72 (AH 1288) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 402

    611 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00003,s.152

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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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 4 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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