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Mahmud Hilmi Efendi

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Gaziantep (Antep) · Dated entries 1883 to 1895 (AH 1301 to 1312)

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 24/223

The career, year by year

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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.

1Gaziantep (Antep)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Kozlu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Gaziantep (Antep)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Ekinlik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ekinlik

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 28

    2. Ekinlik

      Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 6 recorded years

    Ekinlik

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Ekinlik

    1. Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Ekinlik / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Ekinlik

      Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Rüsumat idareleri kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 35

  5. 5

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Rüsumat idareleri kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat idareleri kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Place not recorded / Misakça

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Place not recorded

      Rüsumat idareleri kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Misakça

      Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 38

  7. 7

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Misakça / Kozlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Misakça

    1. Misakça

      Rüsumat Memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kozlu

      Rüsumat Memuru

      310 kuruşCalculated age 39

3 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
1883/84 (AH 1301)200400150 to 1,40012.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)200400150 to 1,50012.8%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)200400150 to 1,50013.2%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)200400150 to 1,50013.3%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)200400150 to 1,50014.4%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)200400135 to 1,50015.4%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)200400130 to 1,50015.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)250400125 to 1,50021.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)310400140 to 1,50037.7%2004

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. Ekinlik8
    1883 to 1891 (AH 1301 to 1308)
  2. Misakça2
    1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
  3. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  4. 1894/95 (AH 1312)

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. Ekinlik200
  2. Misakça300

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. 1883 to 1891 (AH 1301 to 1308)
  2. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)
  3. 1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
  4. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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 mektebi; rüştiye; Mekteb-i Fünun-ı Harbiye idadi kısmı [source]

Qualification Göz ağrısı nedeniyle tahsilini tamamlayamadı [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Gaziantepli memurlar

    EDA CEREN ERKABALCI · 2019 · Pages 104, 105

    BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 24/223.; 230 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 24/223.

Read the original source accounts · 19 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 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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