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Osman Nuri Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1894 to 1908 (AH 1312 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.67, s.129; BOA, DH. SAİD, nr.67, s.129

The career, year by year

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

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1SafranboluIstanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Safranbolu

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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

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi Dışarı Şubesi, İstanbul / Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi Dışarı Şubesi, İstanbul; Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

      Kâtip

      10 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    1. Kâtip

      20 kuruşCalculated age 23

  4. 4

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 5 recorded years

    Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    1. Kâtip

      50 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Kâtip

      135 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    1. Kâtip

      145 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Kâtip

      160 kuruşCalculated age 31

  6. 6

    1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years

    Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul

    1. Kâtip

      180 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Kâtip

      200 kuruşCalculated age 35

6 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

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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
1894/95 (AH 1312)10400140 to 1,5000.8%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)20400140 to 1,5000.6%1981
1897/98 (AH 1315)50400140 to 1,4251.8%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)65400144 to 1,4002.5%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)100400140 to 1,4404.6%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)125400140 to 1,5008.3%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)135400150 to 1,5208.9%1666
1903/04 (AH 1321)160405150 to 1,45013.0%1578
1906/07 (AH 1324)180450150 to 1,52514.8%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)200460135 to 1,61516.1%1290

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul10
    1894 to 1908 (AH 1312 to 1325)
  2. Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi Dışarı Şubesi, İstanbul1
    1894/95 (AH 1312)

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. Evkaf Nezareti Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi, İstanbul10 to 200

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. 1894 to 1908 (AH 1312 to 1325)
  2. 1894/95 (AH 1312)

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; Ayasofya-i Kebîr Medresesi [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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 151, 152

    103 BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.67, s.129; BOA, DH. SAİD, nr.67, s.129

Read the original source accounts · 19 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 13 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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