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Servet Efendi

Born 1881/82 (AH 1299) · Bursa · Dated entries 1902 to 1906 (AH 1320 to 1323)

Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference 161/73; 142

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1902/03 (AH 1320): Dersaâdet emtia dahiliye gümrüğü nezareti katibliği, place unspecified, 400 kuruş1905/06 (AH 1323): manifesto me’muru refâkati, place unspecified, 450 kuruşAH 1320AH 1323
Places and reading notes

    2 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 3 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.

    1Bursa
    ● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

    Stage 1 of 3 · Bursa

    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.

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

    1. 1

      1881/82 (AH 1299)

      Bursa

      1. Birth

    2. 2

      1902/03 (AH 1320)

      Place not recorded

      Within-year entry order unresolved

      Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      1. First work as recorded

        Calculated age 21

      2. Dersaâdet emtia dahiliye gümrüğü nezareti katibliği

        400 kuruşCalculated age 21

    3. 3

      1905/06 (AH 1323)

      Place not recorded

      Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      1. manifesto me’muru refâkati

        450 kuruşCalculated age 24

    3 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.

    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
    1902/03 (AH 1320)400400150 to 1,50044.4%1627
    1905/06 (AH 1323)450430125 to 1,50050.4%1423

    Career patterns and pay

    Recorded pay over the career

    Kuruş · dated amounts
    02254501902/03AH 13201905/06AH 13231902/03 (AH 1320) · 400 kuruş1905/06 (AH 1323) · 450 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.

    Titles across the recorded years

    Distinct AH years with each recorded title
    1. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
    2. 1905/06 (AH 1323)

    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 Dârüşşafaka mektebi [source]

    Language skills and historical terms

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

    All personal fields and their sources

    Personal details

    Birthplace
    Bursa [source]
    Birth province
    Hüdavendigâr [source]
    Birth year
    1881/82 (AH 1299) [source]
    Father’s occupation
    Gilan na'ibi [source]
    Religion
    İslam [source]
    Archive references
    161/73; 142 [1]

    Education and languages

    Arabic
    Aşina [1]
    French
    Aşina [1]
    Persian
    Aşina [1]
    Turkish
    kitâbet eder [source]
    Education
    Dârüşşafaka mektebi [source]
    Education level equivalent
    12 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

    First work and apprenticeship

    Age at first service
    21 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
    First-salary field
    400 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
    1902/03 (AH 1320) [source]

    Sources and evidence

    1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

      DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 360

      161/73; 142

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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 · 2 dated AH years

    Annual salary study and register readings

    The separate annual salary reference account has 2 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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