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Mustafa Nazmi Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Diyarbakır · Dated entries 1878 to 1910 (AH 1295 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

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

Follow 11 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.

1Diyarbakır
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Diyarbakır

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.

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

  1. 1

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Diyarbakır

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Diyarbekir Vilayeti Mektubçu Kalemi / Diyarbakır

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir Vilayeti Mektubçu Kalemi

    1. Diyarbekir Vilayeti Mektubçu Kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Diyarbakır

      Mektubçu Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 2 recorded years

    Diyarbakır

    AH entries: 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

      All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

      Diyarbakır

      AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

      Within-year entry order unresolved

        All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1891/92 (AH 1309) · 4 recorded years

        Behramki Nahiyesi

        AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

        Not yet located on the map: Behramki Nahiyesi

          All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1895/96 (AH 1313)

          Behramki Nahiyesi / Place not recorded

          Within-year entry order unresolved

          Not yet located on the map: Behramki Nahiyesi; Location not recorded

            All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

          1. 7

            1896/97 (AH 1314)

            Place not recorded / Lice Kazası

            Within-year entry order unresolved

            Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Lice Kazası

              All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1897/98 (AH 1315)

              Lice Kazası / Derik Kazası

              Within-year entry order unresolved

              Not yet located on the map: Lice Kazası; Derik Kazası

                All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1901/02 (AH 1319) · 2 recorded years

                Midilli Sancağı

                AH entries: 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.

                Not yet located on the map: Midilli Sancağı

                  All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1903/04 (AH 1321)

                  Midilli Sancağı / Mardin Sancağı / Place not recorded

                  Within-year entry order unresolved

                  Not yet located on the map: Midilli Sancağı; Mardin Sancağı; Location not recorded

                    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

                  1. 11

                    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 6 recorded years

                    Place not recorded

                    AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

                    Within-year entry order unresolved

                    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

                    1. Actual commencement of duty, Mardin muhasebeciliği

                      Calculated age 42

                      Continuing service as described

                    2. Removed from cadre (kadro haricine) (İnfisal)

                      Calculated age 47

                    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

                  8 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.

                  Read all 8 undated entries and their source evidence →

                  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
                  1879/80 (AH 1297)40400180 to 1,8001.2%1534
                  1880/81 (AH 1298)75400160 to 1,5003.3%1448
                  1883/84 (AH 1301)240400150 to 1,40017.6%1720
                  1884/85 (AH 1302)240400150 to 1,50018.1%1748
                  1885/86 (AH 1303)240400150 to 1,50018.3%1787
                  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)600450150 to 1,57564.0%2119
                  1897/98 (AH 1315)540400140 to 1,42566.5%1891
                  1901/02 (AH 1319)1,782400150 to 1,52091.1%1666
                  1902/03 (AH 1320)1,782400150 to 1,50092.7%1627
                  1903/04 (AH 1321)2,025405150 to 1,45094.4%1578

                  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. 1878 to 1886 (AH 1295 to 1303)
                  2. Behramki Nahiyesi5
                    1891 to 1896 (AH 1309 to 1313)
                  3. Midilli Sancağı3
                    1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
                  4. Lice Kazası2
                    1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
                  5. Derik Kazası1
                    1897/98 (AH 1315)
                  6. Mardin Sancağı1
                    1903/04 (AH 1321)

                  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. Diyarbakır20 to 240
                  2. Behramki Nahiyesi300
                  3. Midilli Sancağı1,782
                  4. Lice Kazası540 to 600
                  5. Derik Kazası540
                  6. Mardin Sancağı2,025

                  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. 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)
                  2. 1891 to 1896 (AH 1309 to 1313)
                  3. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
                  4. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
                  5. 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
                  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 Mekteb-i Rüştiyesi [source]

                  Language skills and historical terms

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

                  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

                  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 ahval defterlerinde Diyarbekirli yöneticiler

                    İSHAK ŞİMŞEK · 2013 · Pages 198, 199, 200, 201

                  Read the original source accounts · 43 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 · 22 dated AH years

                  Annual salary study and register readings

                  The separate annual salary reference account has 35 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

                  Open the salary study and register readings →

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