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Zülfikar Efendi

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Harput · Dated entries 1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 164-214

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1897/98 (AH 1315): Süvari Tahsildarı, Hamidiye, 250 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315): Süvari tahsildarı (İnfisal), Hamidiye1900/01 (AH 1318): Üçüncü daire tahsildarı, Hamidiye, 250 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319): Üçüncü daire tahsildarı, Hamidiye, 250 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320): Üçüncü daire tahsildarı, Hamidiye, 250 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320): Üçüncü daire tahsildarı, Hamidiye, 300 kuruşAH 1315AH 1320
Places and reading notes
  • Hamidiye

4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 3 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.

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

Stage 1 of 3 · Harput

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.

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

  1. 1

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Hamidiye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hamidiye

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 42

    2. Süvari Tahsildarı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 42

    3. Süvari tahsildarı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 42

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 3 recorded years

    Hamidiye

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hamidiye

    1. Üçüncü daire tahsildarı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 45

    2. Üçüncü daire tahsildarı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    3. Üçüncü daire tahsildarı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    4. Üçüncü daire tahsildarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 47

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
1897/98 (AH 1315)250400140 to 1,42520.6%1891
1900/01 (AH 1318)250400140 to 1,50022.0%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)250400150 to 1,52021.8%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)300400150 to 1,50028.8%1627

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01503001897/98AH 13151900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201897/98 (AH 1315) · 250 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318) · 250 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · 250 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320) · 250 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320) · 300 kuruş

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. Hamidiye4
    1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)

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. Hamidiye250 to 300

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. 1900 to 1903 (AH 1318 to 1320)
  2. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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 Harput sıbyan mektebi; Harput rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Harput [source]
Birth year
1856/57 (AH 1273) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD 164-214 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Harput sıbyan mektebi; Harput rüşdiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
42 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Hamidiye [source]
First-salary field
250 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1897/98 (AH 1315) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 88, 89

    BOA. DH. SAİD 164-214

Read the original source accounts · 6 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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 6 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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