Official
Sabit Kigork Efendi
Armenian Christian (Ermeni). Born in Bilecik in 1865/66 (AH 1282). On record 1885 to 1906, 20 annual entries.
Archive reference 0062_0194; 383
Life#
Sabit Kigork Efendi was born in Bilecik in 1865/66 (AH 1282). The record gives the community as Armenian Christian (Ermeni) and the father's occupation as Mahkeme Azasi.
Schooling recorded: Millet Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Bursa in 1881/82 (AH 1299). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 4 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1885/86, the official was about 20 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1885/86, shows Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul, with 300 kuruş a month. In 1886/87 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Bandırma, the salary going from 300 to 380 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul). In 1888/89 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Beyoğlu, the salary going from 380 to 250 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Bandırma). In 1889/90 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Bakırköy, the salary going from 250 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Beyoğlu). In 1892/93 the record shows Müdür Muavini in Bakırköy, with 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Bakırköy). In 1893/94 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Heybeliada, with 400 kuruş a month (before: Müdür Muavini in Bakırköy). In 1900/01 the record shows 3. Müdür in Heybeliada, the salary going from 450 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Heybeliada). In 1905/06 the record shows 2. Müdür in Büyükada, the salary going from 600 to 690 kuruş a month (before: 3. Müdür in Heybeliada). No annual entry is recorded for 1887/88.
The highest salary, 690 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1905/06 as 2. Müdür. 73 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 475 kuruş. Over 20 years with a salary the median is 425 kuruş a month, with 6 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 150 kuruş, is seen in 1889/90. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 4.25 per cent a year on average.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1865/66 (AH 1282)
- Birthplace
- Bilecik
- Community
- Armenian Christian (Ermeni)
- Nationality as recorded
- Ermeni
- Father's occupation
- Mahkeme Azasi
Education
- Community school
- Millet Mektebi (4 years)community school (school of a non-Muslim community)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 4 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives yes.
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Place
- Bursa
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 300
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Görev ihmali / Muhaberatı tail eylediği için; Görev İhmali
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1306; 1307; 1308; 1310; 1311; 1312; 1313; 1314; 1315; 1316; 1317; 1318; 1319; 1320; 1321; 1322; 1323
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1881/82AH 1299 | First work | Bursa | 300first-salary field |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Bandırma | 380 |
| No annual entry: 1887/88 (AH 1305) | |||
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Beyoğlu | 250 |
| 1889 to 1892AH 1307 to 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Bakırköy | 400 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Müdür Muavini | Bakırköy | 400 |
| 1893 to 1900AH 1311 to 1317 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 400 to 450 |
| 1900 to 1905AH 1318 to 1322 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 500 to 600 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | 2. Müdür | Büyükada | 690 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885/86 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 12% |
| 1886/87 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1888/89 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 8% |
| 1889/90 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 27% |
| 1890/91 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 28% |
| 1891/92 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 29% |
| 1892/93 | 400 | 500 | 875 | 29% |
| 1893/94 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 30% |
| 1894/95 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 30% |
| 1895/96 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 30% |
| 1896/97 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 44% |
| 1897/98 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 45% |
| 1898/99 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 44% |
| 1899/1900 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1900/01 | 500 | 500 | 540 | 47% |
| 1901/02 | 500 | 500 | 540 | 49% |
| 1902/03 | 500 | 500 | 540 | 49% |
| 1903/04 | 500 | 475 | 540 | 51% |
| 1904/05 | 600 | 450 | 540 | 67% |
| 1905/06 | 690 | 475 | 805 | 73% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Named in scholarly works#
No link between a work and an official has been accepted. Each entry was found by fixed rules on the name and the recorded fields, and says what it rests on.
Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan Bilecikli devlet adamları (MEHMET GEYİK, 2022). Name as printed: Sabit Kigork Efendi. PDF page 77.
Probable link: same name, birthplace and register and page of the archive reference
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- İbrahim Ethem EfendiHeybeliada, 9 shared years
- Mehmet Raif EfendiHeybeliada, 3 shared years
- Ali Bedri EfendiBeyoğlu and 1 other place, 2 shared years
- İbrahim Ethem EfendiBakırköy, 2 shared years
- Mehmet Kazım EfendiBakırköy, 2 shared years
431 officials in all. Officials recorded in Heybeliada
Same school recorded
- Artin Ayvazyan EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1885/86 (AH 1303)
- Karnik EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1885/86 (AH 1303)
- Rafael MusaMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1885/86 (AH 1303)
- Refail Mosi EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1885/86 (AH 1303)
- Yosef EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1885/86 (AH 1303)
262 officials in all. Officials with Millet Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Artin Zeki EfendiBilecik, born 1864/65 (AH 1281)
- SERVİYE EFENDİBilecik, born 1864/65 (AH 1281)
- Kigork Sırrı EfendiBilecik, born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Abik Şakik EfendiBilecik, born 1869/70 (AH 1286)
- Hacı Mustafa Nuri EfendiBilecik, born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
12 officials in all. Officials born in Bilecik
Full record
Annual entries (20)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Bandırma | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Beyoğlu | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Bakırköy | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Muhabere Memuru | Bakırköy | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Bakırköy | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Müdür Muavini | Bakırköy | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Muhabere Memuru | Heybeliada | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | 2. Müdür | Büyükada | 690 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0194; 383 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (17)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Sabit Kigork Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1282 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | bilecik | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | hudavendigar | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Mahkeme Azasi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Ermeni | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Millet Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1299 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1882 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Bursa | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 300 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Görev ihmali / Muhaberatı tail eylediği için used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Görev İhmali other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1306; 1307; 1308; 1310; 1311; 1312; 1313; 1314; 1315; 1316; 1317; 1318; 1319; 1320; 1321; 1322; 1323 | Later annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- Later annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 20 annual entries of 20 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.