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Mustafa Talip Efendi

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Diyarbakır · Dated entries 1856 to 1899 (AH 1273 to 1316)

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 15 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.

1DiyarbakırAl-Aziziyah (Aziziye)Al Diwaniyah (Divaniye)Karbala (Kerbela)Cezire
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 15 · 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

    1839/40 (AH 1255)

    Diyarbakır

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Altıncı Ordu-yu Hümayun Yoklama Kalemi / Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Altıncı Ordu-yu Hümayun Yoklama Kalemi; Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

    1. Altıncı Ordu-yu Hümayun Yoklama Kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

      Mülazım

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1857/58 (AH 1274) · 4 recorded years

    Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

    AH entries: 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

    1. Mülazım

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mülazım

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi / Al-Aziziyah (Aziziye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

    1. Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi

      Mülazım

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Al-Aziziyah (Aziziye)

      tahrirat kâtibi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1865/66 (AH 1282) · 5 recorded years

    Semava

    AH entries: 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Semava

    1. Mal Müdürü

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Mal Müdürü

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Semava / Düleym / Süleymaniye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Semava; Düleym; Süleymaniye

    1. Semava

      Mal Müdürü

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Süleymaniye

      aşar-ı ahali kâtibi (muvakkat)

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Katif / Mirz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Katif; Mirz

    1. Katif

      beytülmal emini

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Mirz

      Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 33

  8. 8

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Selahiye

    Not yet located on the map: Selahiye

    1. Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 35

  9. 9
    1. Kaymakam

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 40

  10. 10

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Karbala (Kerbela)

    1. Aşar Müdürü

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 42

  11. 11

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Cezire

    1. kaymakam vekili

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 45

  12. 12

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Amara

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara

    1. arazi-i seniye memuru vekili

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. arazi-i seniye memuru vekili (Azil)

      Calculated age 47

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 10 recorded years

    Al-Aziziyah (Aziziye)

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

    1. Kaymakam

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 49

    2. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 58

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  14. 14

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Al-Aziziyah (Aziziye) / Aziziye / Düleym

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aziziye; Düleym

    1. Al-Aziziyah (Aziziye)

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 59

      Continuing service as described

    2. Düleym

      Kaymakam

      2,850 kuruşCalculated age 59

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  15. 15

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Cezire

    1. Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 61

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)750500150 to 3,00060.6%161
1865/66 (AH 1282)1,000400150 to 2,00075.9%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)1,000400146 to 2,00076.1%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)1,000458150 to 2,50071.4%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)1,000475150 to 3,00072.4%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)1,000400150 to 2,25075.3%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)1,500400150 to 2,00084.4%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)3,000420.5125 to 2,37591.4%712
1873/74 (AH 1290)2,500405130 to 2,20091.2%805
1878 (AH 1295)1,800450150 to 2,00089.0%1196
1879/80 (AH 1297)1,750400180 to 1,80088.8%1534
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,750400150 to 1,40091.4%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)2,500400150 to 1,40095.9%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)2,500400150 to 1,50095.1%1748
1886/87 (AH 1304)1,750400150 to 1,50091.8%1725
1896/97 (AH 1314)2,850450150 to 1,57596.0%2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)1,575400144 to 1,40091.3%1844

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 1897 (AH 1278 to 1314)
  2. Altıncı Ordu Yoklama Kalemi6
    1856 to 1862 (AH 1273 to 1278)
  3. Semava6
    1865 to 1871 (AH 1282 to 1287)
  4. Amara2
    1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  5. 1882 to 1899 (AH 1300 to 1316)
  6. Düleym2
    1870 to 1897 (AH 1287 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. Semava1,000
  2. Amara2,500
  3. Cezire1,575 to 1,750
  4. Düleym2,850

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. 1871 to 1899 (AH 1288 to 1316)
  2. 1865 to 1871 (AH 1282 to 1287)
  3. 1856 to 1862 (AH 1273 to 1278)
  4. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  5. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
  6. 1870/71 (AH 1287)

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 Sıbyan 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. Sicill-i ahval defterlerinde Diyarbekirli yöneticiler

    İSHAK ŞİMŞEK · 2013 · Pages 201, 202, 203, 204

Read the original source accounts · 41 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 · 31 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 40 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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