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Ömer Efendi

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1866 to 1881 (AH 1283 to 1298)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.7, s.453

The career, year by year

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

1866/67 (AH 1283): Mülazım, Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi1868/69 (AH 1285): Müskirat memuru, Safranbolu, 150 kuruş1872/73 (AH 1289): Arazi yoklama kâtibi, Gökçesu nahiyesi1874/75 (AH 1291): Duhan tahrir memuru, Gökçesu, 400 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291): Fabrika kâtibi, Gökçesu, 200 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293): Üçüncü fırka-i seyyare mukayyidi, Kastamonu vilayeti, 235 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293): Vukuat kâtibi, Aktaş, 200 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298): Vukuat kâtibi, Safranbolu, 275 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298): Tahrir ve vergi kâtibi, Safranbolu, 400 kuruşAH 1283AH 1298
Places and reading notes
  • Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi
  • Safranbolu
  • Gökçesu nahiyesi
  • Gökçesu
  • Kastamonu vilayeti
  • Aktaş

6 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 7 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.

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

Stage 1 of 7 · Safranbolu

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.

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

  1. 1

    1839/40 (AH 1255)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 28

    2. Mülazım

      Calculated age 28

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Safranbolu

    1. Müskirat memuru

      150 kuruşCalculated age 30

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Gökçesu nahiyesi

    Not yet located on the map: Gökçesu nahiyesi

    1. Arazi yoklama kâtibi

      Calculated age 34

  5. 5

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Gökçesu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gökçesu

    1. Duhan tahrir memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. Fabrika kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 36

  6. 6

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Kastamonu vilayeti / Aktaş

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kastamonu vilayeti; Aktaş

    1. Kastamonu vilayeti

      Üçüncü fırka-i seyyare mukayyidi

      235 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Aktaş

      Vukuat kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 38

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Safranbolu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vukuat kâtibi

      275 kuruşCalculated age 43

    2. Tahrir ve vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 43

1 entry 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.

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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
1868/69 (AH 1285)150475150 to 3,0008.1%505
1874/75 (AH 1291)400450150 to 1,80043.5%882
1876/77 (AH 1293)235420150 to 2,00020.9%1102
1880/81 (AH 1298)400400160 to 1,50047.0%1448

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001868/69AH 12851875/76AH 12921880/81AH 12981868/69 (AH 1285) · 150 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 400 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 200 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293) · 235 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293) · 200 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298) · 275 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298) · 400 kuruş

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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. 1868 to 1881 (AH 1285 to 1298)
  2. Aktaş1
    1876/77 (AH 1293)
  3. Gökçesu1
    1874/75 (AH 1291)
  4. Gökçesu nahiyesi1
    1872/73 (AH 1289)
  5. Kastamonu vilayeti1
    1876/77 (AH 1293)
  6. Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi1
    1866/67 (AH 1283)

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. Safranbolu150 to 400
  2. Aktaş200
  3. Gökçesu200 to 400
  4. Kastamonu vilayeti235

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. 1876 to 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298)
  2. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  3. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
  4. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
  5. 1866/67 (AH 1283)
  6. 1868/69 (AH 1285)

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; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Safranbolu [source]Zağfiranbolu [1]
Birth province
Kastamonu [source]
Birth year
1839/40 (AH 1255) [source]
Father’s occupation
Kayıkçı esnafı [source]
Archive references
BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.7, s.453 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
bir mikdar tahsil [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
28 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Zağfiranbolu Rüsûmat İdaresi [source]
First work year
1866/67 (AH 1283) [source]
Apprenticeship
2 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

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

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 155

    107 BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.7, s.453

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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