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SEYİT ALİ RIZA

Born 1857/58 (AH 1274) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1880 to 1895 (AH 1298 to 1312)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00119_00152

The career, year by year

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

Follow 6 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. mülazım (muhasebe)

      Calculated age 24

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 11 recorded years

    Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi

    AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi

    1. mülazım (muhasebe)

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. mülazım (muhasebe)

      Calculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi / Neşve nahiyesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi; Neşve nahiyesi

    1. Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi

      mülazım (muhasebe)

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Neşve nahiyesi

      nahiye katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Neşve nahiyesi / Şarş nahiyesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Neşve nahiyesi; Şarş nahiyesi

    1. Neşve nahiyesi

      nahiye katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Şarş nahiyesi

      nahiye katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 37

  6. 6

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Neşve nahiyesi / Bedre kazası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Neşve nahiyesi; Bedre kazası

    1. Neşve nahiyesi

      nahiye katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bedre kazası

      nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 38

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

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
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)250400140 to 1,40021.2%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)250400140 to 1,50021.9%2004

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. Kerkük sancağı muhasebesi13
    1880 to 1893 (AH 1298 to 1310)
  2. Neşve nahiyesi3
    1892 to 1895 (AH 1310 to 1312)
  3. Bedre kazası1
    1894/95 (AH 1312)
  4. Şarş nahiyesi1
    1893/94 (AH 1311)

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. Neşve nahiyesi250
  2. Bedre kazası250
  3. Şarş nahiyesi250

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. 1880 to 1893 (AH 1298 to 1310)
  2. 1892 to 1895 (AH 1310 to 1312)
  3. 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 [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 Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 125, 126

    126 DH_SAİD,00119_00152; DH_SAİD,00119_00152

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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