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Süleyman Sami Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Mitrovica (Mitroviça) · Dated entries 1863 to 1881 (AH 1280 to 1298)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 21-103

The career, year by year

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

Follow 6 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.

1Mitrovica (Mitroviça)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

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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

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Nüfus mukayyidi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1864/65 (AH 1281) · 13 recorded years

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    AH entries: 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Nüfus mukayyidi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal Müdürü

      380 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 2 recorded years

    Mitrovica (Mitroviça) / Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

      Mal Müdürü

      380 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 35

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi üye mülazımı

      270 kuruşCalculated age 37

  6. 6

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi / Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi

    1. Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi

      Bidayet mahkemesi üye mülazımı

      270 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

      Mal Müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 38

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

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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
1863/64 (AH 1280)150475125 to 3,00011.3%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)150400125 to 3,00011.1%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)150400150 to 2,0009.4%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)150400146 to 2,00010.1%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)150458150 to 2,5008.1%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)150475150 to 3,0008.1%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)150400150 to 2,2509.4%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)150400150 to 2,0009.3%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)150420.5125 to 2,37511.0%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)380450140 to 2,35040.3%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)380405130 to 2,20042.4%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)380450150 to 1,80041.1%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)380450150 to 2,00039.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)380420150 to 2,00041.7%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)500450150 to 1,80054.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)500450150 to 2,00054.4%1196
1879/80 (AH 1297)270400180 to 1,80024.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)450400160 to 1,50055.3%1448

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. 1863 to 1881 (AH 1280 to 1298)
  2. Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi2
    1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)

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. Kosova Vilayeti Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi270

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. 1863 to 1873 (AH 1280 to 1289)
  2. 1872 to 1881 (AH 1289 to 1298)
  3. 1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
  4. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)
  5. 1878 (AH 1295)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; medrese [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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Priştineli memurlar

    ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 274, 275

    BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 21-103

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 18 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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