Official
AHMET ELMAS EFENDi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Ioannina (Yanya) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). On record 1889 to 1906, 16 annual entries.
Archive reference 0156_0055; 107
Life#
AHMET ELMAS EFENDi was born in Ioannina (Yanya) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.
Schooling recorded: Rum Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded, at a place worded Yanya. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Albanian, with Tekellum; Greek (Rum), with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Salahora in 1889/90 (AH 1307): Duyunu Umumiye Kalemi. The official was then about 23 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1889/90, the official was about 23 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1889/90, shows Duyunu Umumiye Memuru in Preveza (Preveze), with 300 kuruş a month. In 1892/93 the record shows Muhasebe Kalemi in Ioannina, with 300 kuruş a month (before: Duyunu Umumiye Memuru in Preveza). In 1905/06 the record shows Emlak Memuru in Lusna, the salary going from 300 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhasebe Kalemi in Ioannina). No annual entry is recorded for 1891/92.
The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1905/06 as Emlak Memuru. 50 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 475 kuruş. Over 16 years with a salary the median is 300 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and no cuts. The largest rise, 200 kuruş, is seen in 1905/06. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 3.24 per cent a year on average.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Birthplace
- Ioannina (Yanya)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
Education
- Community school
- Rum Mektebi (4 years)Greek Orthodox (Rum) school; place of the school as worded: Yanya
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- Yes
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Albanian
- Tekellumspeaking
- Greek (Rum)
- Kitabetwriting. Rum is the word of the records for Greek as spoken by the Orthodox Christians of the empire. It is kept apart from the column Greek, which the records also have
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1889/90 (AH 1307)
- Place
- Salahora
- First job as worded
- Duyunu Umumiye Kalemi
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 24
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 300
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 300
Notes from the record
- Merit and competence grade (recorded code)
- 1
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Duyunu Umumiye Kalemifirst work | Salahora | 300first-salary field |
| 1889 to 1891AH 1307 to 1308 | Duyunu Umumiye Memuru | Preveza (Preveze) | 300 |
| No annual entry: 1891/92 (AH 1309) | |||
| 1892 to 1905AH 1310 to 1322 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Emlak Memuru | Lusna | 500 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90 | 300 | 500 | 14% | |
| 1890/91 | 300 | 500 | 300 | 15% |
| 1892/93 | 300 | 500 | 182.5 | 17% |
| 1893/94 | 300 | 500 | 200 | 17% |
| 1894/95 | 300 | 500 | 250 | 17% |
| 1895/96 | 300 | 500 | 250 | 17% |
| 1896/97 | 300 | 500 | 245 | 18% |
| 1897/98 | 300 | 500 | 275 | 19% |
| 1898/99 | 300 | 500 | 262.5 | 19% |
| 1899/1900 | 300 | 500 | 300 | 18% |
| 1900/01 | 300 | 500 | 300 | 18% |
| 1901/02 | 300 | 500 | 340 | 20% |
| 1902/03 | 300 | 500 | 350 | 21% |
| 1903/04 | 300 | 475 | 350 | 23% |
| 1904/05 | 300 | 450 | 375 | 23% |
| 1905/06 | 500 | 475 | 50% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mehmet Recep EfendiIoannina (Yanya), 12 shared years
- Hüseyin EfendiIoannina (Yanya), 11 shared years
- Anastaş EfendiIoannina (Yanya), 8 shared years
- İbrahim Ethem EfendiIoannina (Yanya), 8 shared years
- Hasan Hüsnü EfendiIoannina (Yanya), 8 shared years
112 officials in all. Officials recorded in Ioannina (Yanya)
Same school recorded
- Ali Fuat EfendiRum Mektebi, first annual entry 1889/90 (AH 1307)
- Yuvan Fahri EfendiRum Mektebi, first annual entry 1889/90 (AH 1307)
- Faik EfendiRum Mektebi, first annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306)
- Kostaki Kudsi EfendiRum Mektebi, first annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306)
- Garofalidi EfendiRum Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
60 officials in all. Officials with Rum Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Hafız Mehmet Müslim EfendiIoannina (Yanya), born 1865/66 (AH 1282)
- Mehmet Galip EfendiIoannina (Yanya), born 1865/66 (AH 1282)
- Şevket EfendiIoannina (Yanya), born 1868/69 (AH 1285)
- Hüseyin Hüsnü EfendiIoannina (Yanya), born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Abdülkerim EfendiIoannina (Yanya), born 1870/71 (AH 1287)
31 officials in all. Officials born in Ioannina (Yanya)
Full record
Annual entries (16)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Duyunu Umumiye Memuru | Preveza (Preveze) | 300 | Public Debt Administration (Düyun-ı Umumiye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Duyunu Umumiye Memuru | Preveza (Preveze) | 300 | Public Debt Administration (Düyun-ı Umumiye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0156_0055; 107 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Emlak Memuru | Lusna | 500 | Land Registry (Defter-i Hakani) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0156_0055; 107 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (25)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | AHMET ELMAS EFENDi | Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1283 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | yanya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Yanya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Yanya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Yanya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | yanya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Mektebi Rum | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Place of the school | Yanya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 4 used on this page | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 other value | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1307 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1890 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | salahora | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | Preveze | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | Preveze | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | yanya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Duyunu Umumiye Kalemi | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 24 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 300 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 300 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Other recorded values | ||
| Merit and competence grade (recorded code) | 1 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 13 annual entries of 16 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.