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Lütfullah Lütfi Nuri

Born 1858/59 (AH 1275) · Malatya · Dated entries 1881 to 1913 (AH 1299 to 1331)

Languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Persian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 20 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.

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

Stage 1 of 20 · Malatya

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.

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

  1. 1

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Pilmar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Pilmar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi Başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi Başkâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Serkandi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Serkandi

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      480 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Nahiye Müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 27

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Nikodim

    Not yet located on the map: Nikodim

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      750 kuruşCalculated age 28

  6. 6

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Nikodim / Pravişta

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Nikodim; Pravişta

    1. Nikodim

      Nahiye Müdürü

      750 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pravişta

      Nahiye Müdürü

      560 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Kesendire

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kesendire

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      480 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Nahiye Müdürü (Azil)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Cihanbeyli / Pah

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cihanbeyli

    1. Cihanbeyli

      Nahiye Müdürü

      355 kuruşCalculated age 32

    2. Pah

      Kaymakam

      1,170 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Pah

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Pah / Carsancak

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Carsancak

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 34

  11. 11

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 2 recorded years

    Pah

    AH entries: 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

  12. 12

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Pah / Besni / Arapkir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Besni; Arapkir

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Arapkir

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Pah

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

  14. 14

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Pah / Arapkir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Arapkir

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Arapkir

      Kaymakam

      1,125 kuruşCalculated age 39

  15. 15

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Pah / Keskim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keskim

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Keskim

      Kaymakam

      1,125 kuruşCalculated age 40

  16. 16

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 4 recorded years

    Pah

    AH entries: 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  17. 17

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Pah / Kiğı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kiğı

      Kaymakam

      1,125 kuruşCalculated age 45

  18. 18

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 2 recorded years

    Pah

    AH entries: 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

  19. 19

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Pah / Kulp

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Pah

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kulp

      Kaymakam

      1,125 kuruşCalculated age 48

  20. 20

    1912/13 (AH 1331)

    Malazgird

    Not yet located on the map: Malazgird

    1. Kaymakam

      200 kuruşCalculated age 56

4 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.

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
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)480400150 to 1,50058.7%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)750400150 to 1,50074.1%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)750400150 to 1,50073.6%1725
1888/89 (AH 1306)480400135 to 1,50054.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,170400130 to 1,50084.8%1874
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,250400140 to 1,60085.3%1927
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,250400140 to 1,50086.4%2004
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,125450150 to 1,57583.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)1,125400140 to 1,42586.8%1891
1902/03 (AH 1320)1,125400150 to 1,50085.4%1627
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,125430125 to 1,50084.8%1423
1912/13 (AH 1331)2001,200300 to 4,0003.3%151

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. Pah17
    1889 to 1906 (AH 1307 to 1323)
  2. Arapkir2
    1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  3. Nikodim2
    1885 to 1887 (AH 1303 to 1304)
  4. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  5. Besni1
    1894/95 (AH 1312)
  6. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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. Pah1,170
  2. Arapkir1,125 to 1,250
  3. Nikodim750
  4. Besni1,250

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. 1889 to 1913 (AH 1307 to 1331)
  2. 1884 to 1890 (AH 1302 to 1307)
  3. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)

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; Rüşdiye; Medrese; Mekteb-i Hukuk; Mekteb-i Mülkiye [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 ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 261, 262, 263, 264

Read the original source accounts · 42 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 · 24 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 38 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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