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MUSTAFA EFŞAH BEY

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1890 to 1904 (AH 1308 to 1321)

Languages French, Italian, Turkish

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.

1Shkodër (İşkodra)Shëngjin (Şengin)Tirana (Tiran)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi evrak mukayyidi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 24

  3. 3

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi evrak mukayyidi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Shkodër (İşkodra) / Shëngjin (Şengin)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi evrak mukayyidi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Shëngjin (Şengin)

      Rüsûmat manifesto ve anbar memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 4 recorded years

    Shëngjin (Şengin)

    AH entries: 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüsûmat manifesto ve anbar memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûmat manifesto ve anbar memuru (Azil)

      Calculated age 30

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 3 recorded years

    Tirana (Tiran)

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ser-tahsildar

      200 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Ser-tahsildar (İstifa)

      Calculated age 33

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 2 recorded years

    Selhora

    AH entries: 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Selhora

    1. Rüsûmat Müdürlüğü anbar memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. Muayene memur vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 37

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1890/91 (AH 1308)60400125 to 1,5003.2%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)60400140 to 1,6002.6%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)200400140 to 1,42515.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)200400144 to 1,40014.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)200400140 to 1,44015.4%1821
1902/03 (AH 1320)250400150 to 1,50021.5%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)250405150 to 1,45022.1%1578

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. 1892 to 1897 (AH 1310 to 1314)
  2. 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
  3. 1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)
  4. Selhora2
    1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)

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. Selhora50 to 250

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. 1892 to 1897 (AH 1310 to 1314)
  2. 1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)
  3. 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
  4. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  5. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  6. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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; Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mahalle Mekteb-i İbtidâîsi; Rüşdiye Mektebi [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. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 263, 264

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 · 12 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 17 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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