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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

MUSTAFA A ĞA O ĞLU MEHMED H İLM İ EFEND İ

Born Year not recorded · Muğla · Dated entries 1871 to 1885 (AH 1288 to 1302)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 7 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.

Fethiye (Meğri)TavasBozüyükMuğlaKöyceğiz
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Yerkesik

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

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Yerkesik

    Not yet located on the map: Yerkesik

    1. Anbar Kâtibi

      250 kuruş

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Fethiye (Meğri) / Tavas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Fethiye (Meğri)

      Ta'dad-ı Ağnam Memuru

      700 kuruş

    2. Tavas

      Belediye Kâtibi

      300 kuruş

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Bozüyük

      All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

    1. 4

      1877/78 (AH 1294)

      Muğla

        All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

      1. 5

        1878/79 (AH 1296)

        Fethiye (Meğri)

          All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

        1. 6

          1879/80 (AH 1297)

          Köyceğiz

            All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

          1. 7

            1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

            Muğla

            AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

            1. Sandık Emini (Azil)

              Recorded service ending

            2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi aza mülazımı

              270 kuruş

          10 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 10 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
          1871/72 (AH 1288)250420.5125 to 2,37521.7%712
          1874/75 (AH 1291)700450150 to 1,80068.0%882
          1875/76 (AH 1292)400450150 to 2,00042.6%976
          1877/78 (AH 1294)350450150 to 1,80038.5%1160
          1878/79 (AH 1296)800400150 to 2,00073.0%1328
          1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
          1884/85 (AH 1302)270400150 to 1,50025.9%1748

          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. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
          2. 1877 to 1885 (AH 1294 to 1302)
          3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
          4. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
          5. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
          6. Yerkesik1
            1871/72 (AH 1288)

          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. Muğla270 to 350
          2. Yerkesik250

          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. 1871/72 (AH 1288)
          2. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
          3. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
          4. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
          5. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
          6. 1884/85 (AH 1302)

          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; Muğla Medresesi [source]

          Honours and other personal details

          Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
          0 (recorded code) [source]
          All personal fields and their sources

          Sources and evidence

          1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Osmanlı döneminde Muğlalı devlet memurları (1879-1909)

            SERDAL SOYLUER · 2006 · Pages 31, 32, 33

          Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 8 dated AH years

          Annual salary study and register readings

          The separate annual salary reference account has 9 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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