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Rıfat Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Hersek · Dated entries 1882 to 1910 (AH 1300 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 176/137; BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 191/128

The career, year by year

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

Follow 10 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.

1HersekIzmir (İzmir)SökeGjirokastër (Ergiri)Ioannina (Yanya)Filiates (Filat)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Hersek

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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

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Hersek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 11 recorded years

    İzmir ve mülhakatı / Izmir (İzmir) / İzmir ve bağlı yerler

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İzmir ve mülhakatı; İzmir ve bağlı yerler

    1. İzmir ve mülhakatı

      Polis memuru

      320 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 36 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    İzmir ve mülhakatı / Söke / Izmir (İzmir) / Place not recorded / Sereg / İzmir ve bağlı yerler

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İzmir ve mülhakatı; Location not recorded; Sereg; İzmir ve bağlı yerler

      All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1894/95 (AH 1312) · 6 recorded years

      Söke / Sereg

      AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

      Within-year entry order unresolved

      Not yet located on the map: Sereg

        All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1900/01 (AH 1318)

        Sereg

        Not yet located on the map: Sereg

          All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

        1. 6

          1901/02 (AH 1319)

          Söke / Sereg / Place not recorded

          Within-year entry order unresolved

          Not yet located on the map: Sereg; Location not recorded

            All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

          1. 7

            1902/03 (AH 1320)

            Gjirokastër (Ergiri) / Eğri / Ergeri

            Within-year entry order unresolved

            Not yet located on the map: Eğri; Ergeri

              All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1903/04 (AH 1321)

              Gjirokastër (Ergiri) / Ioannina (Yanya) / Eğri / Ergeri

              Within-year entry order unresolved

              Not yet located on the map: Eğri; Ergeri

                All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1904/05 (AH 1322) · 5 recorded years

                Ioannina (Yanya)

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

                  All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1909/10 (AH 1327)

                  Ioannina (Yanya) / Geylan / Place not recorded / Filiates (Filat)

                  Within-year entry order unresolved

                  Not yet located on the map: Geylan; Location not recorded

                  1. Ioannina (Yanya)

                    İstinaf Mahkemesi Ceza İdaresi başkâtibi

                    900 kuruşCalculated age 47

                    Continuing service as described

                  All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

                20 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 20 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.

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                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
                1882/83 (AH 1300)320400150 to 1,40039.7%1655
                1883/84 (AH 1301)320400150 to 1,40039.1%1720
                1884/85 (AH 1302)320400150 to 1,50038.4%1748
                1885/86 (AH 1303)320400150 to 1,50037.9%1787
                1886/87 (AH 1304)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1725
                1887/88 (AH 1305)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1762
                1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
                1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
                1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
                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)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
                1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
                1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
                1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821
                1900/01 (AH 1318)500400140 to 1,50055.5%1761
                1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666
                1902/03 (AH 1320)675400150 to 1,50072.1%1627
                1903/04 (AH 1321)900405150 to 1,45079.2%1578
                1904/05 (AH 1322)900400135 to 1,50079.4%1493
                1905/06 (AH 1323)900430125 to 1,50077.4%1423
                1906/07 (AH 1324)900450150 to 1,52575.0%1371
                1907/08 (AH 1325)900460135 to 1,61575.1%1290
                1908/09 (AH 1326)900400150 to 2,00073.7%1232
                1909/10 (AH 1327)1,000600200 to 2,00068.9%1088

                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. 1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)
                2. İzmir ve bağlı yerler12
                  1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)
                3. İzmir ve mülhakatı12
                  1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)
                4. Sereg9
                  1893 to 1902 (AH 1311 to 1319)
                5. 1893 to 1902 (AH 1311 to 1319)
                6. 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)

                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. Izmir (İzmir)300 to 320
                2. İzmir ve bağlı yerler300 to 320
                3. İzmir ve mülhakatı300 to 320
                4. Sereg300 to 500
                5. Söke300 to 400

                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. 1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)
                2. 1893 to 1910 (AH 1311 to 1327)
                3. 1893 to 1900 (AH 1311 to 1317)
                4. 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)
                5. 1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)
                6. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)

                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

                Qualification Formal qualification recorded [source]

                Schooling Hersek İptidai ve Rüşdiye mektepleri [source]

                Language skills and historical terms

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

                All personal fields and their sources

                Sources and evidence

                1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

                  DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 285, 286

                2. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları

                  GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 92, 93

                  174 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 176/137.; BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 176/137.

                3. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları

                  GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 97, 98, 99

                  BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 191/128; 182 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 191/128.; 183 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 191/128.; BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 191/128

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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 · 28 dated AH years

                Annual salary study and register readings

                The separate annual salary reference account has 81 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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