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Kürdizade İbrahim Efendi

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Germili · Dated entries 1873 to 1897 (AH 1290 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00018_00056

The career, year by year

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

Follow 18 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.

Preveza (Preveze)Istanbul (Dersaadet)AydınMalatyaŞanlıurfa (Urfa)Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 18 · Germili

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

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Germili

    Not yet located on the map: Germili

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    İstanbul, Beyoğlu / İstanbul, Beyoğlu mutasarrıflığı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Beyoğlu; İstanbul, Beyoğlu mutasarrıflığı

    1. İstanbul, Beyoğlu

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. İstanbul, Beyoğlu mutasarrıflığı

      Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 24

  3. 3

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Keban Madeni / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keban Madeni; Location not recorded

    1. Keban Madeni

      Kalhane kâtibi

      180 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 25

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 2 recorded years

    Preveza (Preveze)

    AH entries: 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahrirat kalemi refik-i evveli

      380 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Tahrirat kalemi refik-i evveli

      380 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Preveza (Preveze) / Place not recorded / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Preveza (Preveze)

      Tahrirat kalemi refik-i evveli

      380 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Cinayet mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Cinayet mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İzin

      Calculated age 29

  7. 7

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 30

  8. 8

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Bidayet mahkemesi ikinci ceza dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstinaf mahkemesi cunha dairesi ikinci sınıf zabıt kâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Aydın

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstinaf mahkemesi cunha dairesi ikinci sınıf zabıt kâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aydın

      Müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 32

  10. 10

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Aydın / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Aydın

      Müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 33

  11. 11

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 2 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

  12. 12

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Malatya / Mamuretülaziz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuretülaziz

    1. Malatya

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mamuretülaziz

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 36

  13. 13

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 4 recorded years

    Mamuretülaziz

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuretülaziz

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  14. 14

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Mamuretülaziz / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuretülaziz

    1. Mamuretülaziz

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Malatya

      Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 41

  15. 15

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Malatya

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  16. 16

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Malatya / Şanlıurfa (Urfa) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Malatya

      Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 43

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  17. 17
    1. Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 47

  18. 18

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

      Bidayet mahkemesi müddeiumumi muavini

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 48

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
1874/75 (AH 1291)180450150 to 1,80012.5%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)380450150 to 2,00039.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)380420150 to 2,00041.7%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)380450150 to 1,80040.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)200450150 to 2,00014.6%1196
1879/80 (AH 1297)450400180 to 1,80053.0%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)1,400400160 to 1,50088.9%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)1,400400150 to 1,50088.5%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,400400150 to 1,40088.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,400400150 to 1,40089.3%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)1,400400150 to 1,50088.3%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,400400150 to 1,50088.5%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)1,400400150 to 1,50087.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)1,400400150 to 1,50087.3%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)1,400400135 to 1,50087.9%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,400400130 to 1,50088.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,400400125 to 1,50087.3%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,400400140 to 1,60086.8%1927
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,400400140 to 1,50087.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,400450150 to 1,57587.5%2119

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. 1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)
  2. Mamuretülaziz6
    1884 to 1890 (AH 1302 to 1307)
  3. 1877 to 1881 (AH 1294 to 1298)
  4. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  5. 1880 to 1882 (AH 1298 to 1299)
  6. 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)

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. Malatya1,400
  2. Mamuretülaziz1,400
  3. Aydın1,400

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1882 to 1890 (AH 1300 to 1307)
  2. 1889 to 1897 (AH 1307 to 1314)
  3. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  4. 1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)

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 Diyarbekir Rüşdiyesi [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)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 193, 194, 195, 196

    DH_SAİDd_____00018_00056; 315 DH_SAİDd_____00018_00056

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 22 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 37 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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