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Mustafa Hakkı Efendi

Born 1869/70 (AH 1286) · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Dated entries 1881 to 1908 (AH 1299 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 43/15

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

1Komotini (Gümülcine)Xanthi (İskeçe)Serres (Siroz)Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Komotini (Gümülcine)

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

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Komotini (Gümülcine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Xanthi (İskeçe)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 13

    2. Ticaret Mahkemesi mülazımı

      Calculated age 13

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 14 recorded years

    Xanthi (İskeçe)

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Nüfus kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 17

    2. Mal müdürü refakati memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    All 19 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Xanthi (İskeçe) / Serres (Siroz)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Xanthi (İskeçe)

      Mal müdürü refakati memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Serres (Siroz)

      Vergi kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Serres (Siroz)

    1. Vergi kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Serres (Siroz) / Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Serres (Siroz)

      Vergi kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

      Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 33

  7. 7

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 3 recorded years

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    AH entries: 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 36

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Xanthi (İskeçe)

    1. Mal Müdürü

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 39

2 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
1885/86 (AH 1303)125400150 to 1,5007.8%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)125400150 to 1,5007.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)450400150 to 1,50051.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)500400140 to 1,50055.5%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)540400150 to 1,52062.0%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)540400150 to 1,50063.6%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)540405150 to 1,45062.4%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)540400135 to 1,50063.0%1493
1907/08 (AH 1325)1,000460135 to 1,61577.3%1290

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. 1881 to 1908 (AH 1299 to 1325)
  2. 1901 to 1905 (AH 1319 to 1322)
  3. 1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)

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. Xanthi (İskeçe)125 to 1,000

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. 1889 to 1900 (AH 1307 to 1317)
  2. 1901 to 1908 (AH 1319 to 1325)
  3. 1885 to 1888 (AH 1303 to 1305)
  4. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  5. 1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)
  6. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

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; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Gümülcineli devlet adamları

    ŞEHADET ORAN · 2025 · Pages 112, 113, 114

    BOA. DH. SAİDd., 43/15; 207 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 43/15.

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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 · 22 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 31 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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