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Yorgaki Efendi

Born 1826/27 (AH 1242) · Izmir (İzmir) · Dated entries 1861 to 1882 (AH 1278 to 1299)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

1Izmir (İzmir)Cebeli lubnanSulina (Sünne)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Izmir (İzmir)

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

    1826/27 (AH 1242)

    Izmir (İzmir)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Cebeli lubnan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 36

    2. Serkâtip ve tercüman

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 36

  3. 3

    1862/63 (AH 1279) · 5 recorded years

    Cebeli lubnan

    AH entries: 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283. Gaps remain open.

    1. Serkâtip ve tercüman

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Serkâtip ve tercüman

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 42

  5. 5

    1869/70 (AH 1286) · 2 recorded years

    Palermo

    AH entries: 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Palermo

    1. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 46

    2. Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 49

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Bosna

    Not yet located on the map: Bosna

    1. Umur-ı Ecnebiye müdürü

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 50

  8. 8

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years

    Sulina (Sünne)

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    1. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 54

    2. Şehbender

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 56

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 57

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
1861/62 (AH 1278)2,000500150 to 3,00081.9%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)2,000400140 to 3,00083.7%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)2,000475125 to 3,00081.4%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)2,000400125 to 3,00084.5%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)2,000400150 to 2,00088.2%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)2,000400146 to 2,00088.7%399
1869/70 (AH 1286)2,000400150 to 2,25087.3%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)2,000400150 to 2,00089.0%649
1872/73 (AH 1289)2,500450140 to 2,35090.3%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)2,500405130 to 2,20091.2%805
1875/76 (AH 1292)2,500450150 to 2,00091.6%976
1878/79 (AH 1296)2,000400150 to 2,00088.5%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)2,000400180 to 1,80090.5%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)2,000400160 to 1,50093.4%1448

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. 1861 to 1867 (AH 1278 to 1283)
  2. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)
  3. Palermo2
    1869 to 1871 (AH 1286 to 1287)
  4. Bosna1
    1875/76 (AH 1292)

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. Palermo2,000
  2. Bosna2,500

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. 1861 to 1867 (AH 1278 to 1283)
  2. 1869 to 1881 (AH 1286 to 1298)
  3. 1867 to 1882 (AH 1284 to 1299)
  4. 1872 to 1874 (AH 1289 to 1290)
  5. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
  6. 1875/76 (AH 1292)

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 İzmir Büyük Mektebi [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)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 270

Read the original source accounts · 19 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 · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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