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Selim Nazif Efendi (B)

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1868 to 1899 (AH 1285 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 75/171, s. 339

The career, year by year

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

Follow 4 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.

1Shkodër (İşkodra)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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.

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi memuru

      75 kuruşCalculated age 17

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286) · 10 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aşâr-ı Taşir kâtibi

      275 kuruşCalculated age 18

    2. Ticaret Mahkemesi başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 9 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Cibâl-i Mülhaka Komisyonu kâtibi

      188 kuruşCalculated age 40

    2. Cibâl-i Mülhaka Komisyonu kâtibi

      Calculated age 48

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1868/69 (AH 1285)75475150 to 3,0002.8%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)275400150 to 2,25030.9%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)200400150 to 2,00015.3%649
1872/73 (AH 1289)180450140 to 2,35014.0%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)180405130 to 2,20014.5%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)180450150 to 1,80012.5%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)180450150 to 2,00012.1%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)180420150 to 2,00013.4%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)180450150 to 1,80013.0%1160
1878 (AH 1295)500450150 to 2,00054.4%1196
1890/91 (AH 1308)188400125 to 1,50014.8%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)188400140 to 1,60014.2%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)188400135 to 1,50014.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)188400140 to 1,40013.3%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)188400140 to 1,50014.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)188400140 to 1,50014.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)188450150 to 1,57512.3%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)188400140 to 1,42514.4%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)188400144 to 1,40013.9%1844

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. 1868 to 1899 (AH 1285 to 1316)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1890 to 1899 (AH 1308 to 1316)
  2. 1872 to 1878 (AH 1289 to 1294)
  3. 1869/70 (AH 1286)
  4. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  5. 1878 (AH 1295)
  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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İşkodra Rüşdiyesi şehâdetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektepleri; İşkodra Rüşdiyesi [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. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 306, 307

    BOA. DH. SAİDd., 75/171, s. 339

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 20 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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