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Osman Fevzi Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Akpalanga · Dated entries 1883 to 1904 (AH 1301 to 1321)

Languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. 125/9

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.

Skopje (Üsküp)Štip (İştip)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Akpalanga

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

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Akpalanga

    Not yet located on the map: Akpalanga

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Skopje (Üsküp)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Üsküp Rüştiye Mektebi üçüncü muallimi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 4 recorded years

    Skopje (Üsküp)

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    1. Üsküp Rüştiye Mektebi üçüncü muallimi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üsküp Rüştiye Mektebi üçüncü muallimi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Skopje (Üsküp) / Štip (İştip)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Skopje (Üsküp)

      Üsküp Rüştiye Mektebi üçüncü muallimi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Štip (İştip)

      İştip İbtidai Mektebi muallimi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 14 recorded years

    Štip (İştip)

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İştip İbtidai Mektebi muallimi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. İştip İbtidai Mektebi muallimi

      320 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 17 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Štip (İştip) / Küreler

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Küreler

    1. Štip (İştip)

      İştip İbtidai Mektebi muallimi

      320 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Küreler

      Küreler nahiyesi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 41

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
1883/84 (AH 1301)200400150 to 1,40012.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)200400150 to 1,50012.8%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)200400150 to 1,50013.2%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)200400150 to 1,50013.3%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)200400150 to 1,50014.4%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)250400130 to 1,50021.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)320400144 to 1,40037.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)320400140 to 1,44037.5%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)320400140 to 1,50038.2%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)320400150 to 1,52037.1%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)320400150 to 1,50038.4%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)500405150 to 1,45054.0%1578

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. 1888 to 1904 (AH 1306 to 1321)
  2. 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
  3. Küreler1
    1903/04 (AH 1321)

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. Štip (İştip)250 to 320
  2. Küreler500

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. 1888 to 1904 (AH 1306 to 1321)
  2. 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
  3. 1898/99 (AH 1316)
  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)

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; Yüksek dereceyle rüştiye diploması [1]

Schooling Akpalanga Sıbyan Mektebi; Üsküp Rüştiyesi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Kosova doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları (1834-1889)

    DÖNDÜ DOĞAN · 2025 · Pages 115, 116

    414 BOA. DH. SAİD. 125/9.; 415 BOA. DH. SAİD. 125/9.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 21 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 27 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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