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Mihail Efendi

Born 1846/47 (AH 1263) · Nevşehir · Dated entries 1872 to 1898 (AH 1289 to 1315)

Archival references DH. SAİD. 77/175; CDA. DH. SAİD. 77/175

The career, year by year

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

Follow 8 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.

1NevşehirAkşehirAksarayGülşehir (Arapsun)Vize
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Nevşehir

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

    1846/47 (AH 1263)

    Nevşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Akşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. Mal Müdürü

      235 kuruşCalculated age 26

  3. 3

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 5 recorded years

    Aksaray

    AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mal Müdürü

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Mal Müdürü

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Aksaray / Aksaray

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aksaray

      Mal Müdürü

      250 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aksaray

      Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 32

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 5 recorded years

    Nevşehir

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 38

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 3 recorded years

    Gülşehir (Arapsun)

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü

      Calculated age 39

    2. Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 41

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 3 recorded years

    Ankara merkez sancağı

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ankara merkez sancağı

    1. Sandık emini

      675 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Sandık emini (İstifa)

      Calculated age 44

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Vize

    1. Kaymakam Muavini

      540 kuruşCalculated age 52

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
1872/73 (AH 1289)235450140 to 2,35021.4%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)250405130 to 2,20024.8%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)250450150 to 1,80022.7%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)250450150 to 2,00021.9%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)250420150 to 2,00023.5%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)250450150 to 1,80023.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)250450150 to 2,00023.4%1196
1879/80 (AH 1297)450400180 to 1,80053.0%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)450400160 to 1,50055.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)450400150 to 1,50055.3%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)450400150 to 1,40055.0%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)450400150 to 1,40055.6%1720
1887/88 (AH 1305)675400150 to 1,50071.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)675400135 to 1,50073.4%1797
1897/98 (AH 1315)540400140 to 1,42566.5%1891

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. 1873 to 1878 (AH 1290 to 1295)
  2. 1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
  3. Ankara merkez sancağı3
    1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  4. 1884 to 1887 (AH 1302 to 1304)
  5. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  6. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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. Ankara merkez sancağı675
  2. Vize540

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. 1872 to 1887 (AH 1289 to 1304)
  2. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  3. 1897/98 (AH 1315)
  4. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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 Nevşehir Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Orta Anadolu (Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Niğde ve Aksaray) doğumlu gayrimüslim Osmanlı devlet memurları

    ZEYNEP ÜNSAL · 2021 · Pages 43, 44

    DH. SAİD. 77/175; 113 CDA. DH. SAİD. 77/175. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 149.; DH. SAİD. 77/175

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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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 23 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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