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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

İsmail Hakkı Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kemah · Dated entries 1857 to 1891 (AH 1274 to 1308)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.3/305

The career, year by year

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

Follow 9 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.

Baghdad (Bağdat)AmasyaBasraErbilSulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)Kemah
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Tahrirat Dairesi

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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

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Tahrirat Dairesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tahrirat Dairesi

    1. First work as recorded

    2. mülazım memur

  2. 2

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Amasya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      sancak tahrirat kâtibi

    2. Amasya

      muhasebe memuru

      200 kuruş

  3. 3

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years

    Amasya

    AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

      All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1872/73 (AH 1289)

      Amasya / Basra

      Within-year entry order unresolved

        All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1873/74 (AH 1290)

        Erbil

          All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

        1. 6

            All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

          1. 7

            1876/77 (AH 1293)

            Revandız

            Not yet located on the map: Revandız

              All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

            1. 8

              1880/81 (AH 1298)

              Hindiye

              Within-year entry order unresolved

              Not yet located on the map: Hindiye

                All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1890/91 (AH 1308)

                Hindiye

                Not yet located on the map: Hindiye

                1. kaymakam (Azil)

              10 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.

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              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
              1869/70 (AH 1286)200400150 to 2,25016.4%609
              1870/71 (AH 1287)700400150 to 2,00068.7%649
              1873/74 (AH 1290)2,250405130 to 2,20090.2%805
              1875/76 (AH 1292)2,250450150 to 2,00091.1%976
              1876/77 (AH 1293)3,000420150 to 2,00094.1%1102
              1880/81 (AH 1298)1,500400160 to 1,50090.0%1448

              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. 1869 to 1873 (AH 1286 to 1289)
              2. 1869/70 (AH 1286)
              3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
              4. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
              5. Hindiye1
                1880/81 (AH 1298)
              6. Revandız1
                1876/77 (AH 1293)

              The six most recorded places. 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. Amasya200 to 700
              2. Erbil2,250
              3. Hindiye1,250 to 1,500
              4. Revandız3,000

              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. 1873 to 1881 (AH 1290 to 1298)
              2. 1869 to 1873 (AH 1286 to 1289)
              3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
              4. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
              5. 1857/58 (AH 1274)
              6. 1869/70 (AH 1286)

              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 Kemah sıbyan mektebi; Haleb Osmaniye Camii medresesi [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. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

                YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 42, 43

                40 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.3/305.

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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 · 10 dated AH years

              Annual salary study and register readings

              The separate annual salary reference account has 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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