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Mustafa Sabri Efendi

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Malatya · Dated entries 1871 to 1886 (AH 1288 to 1303)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

1MalatyaMisirAl Hudaydah (Hudeyde)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Misir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. bölükbaşı

      Calculated age 26

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 7 recorded years

    Misir

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    1. bölükbaşı

      Calculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. bölükbaşı

      Calculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Misir / Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi

    1. Misir

      bölükbaşı

      Calculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi

      Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi cenazecisi

      220 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi / Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi

    1. Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi

      Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi cenazecisi

      220 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde)

      zabtiye bölük başçavuşu

      Calculated age 35

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years

    Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde)

    AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. zabtiye bölük başçavuşu

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. zabtiye bölük başçavuşu (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 37

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Solhan

    Not yet located on the map: Solhan

    1. muvakkat kol müşiri (aşar)

      Calculated age 38

  8. 8

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Lahye

    Not yet located on the map: Lahye

    1. kol müşiri

      Calculated age 40

  9. 9

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Beriyyetü'l-Kamame / Maktara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Beriyyetü'l-Kamame; Maktara

    1. Beriyyetü'l-Kamame

      nahiye müdür vekili

      250 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Maktara

      Nahiye Müdürü

      750 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 3 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
1878/79 (AH 1296)220400150 to 2,00017.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)220400180 to 1,80014.9%1534
1885/86 (AH 1303)750400150 to 1,50074.1%1787

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. 1871 to 1879 (AH 1288 to 1296)
  2. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  3. Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi2
    1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. Beriyyetü'l-Kamame1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. Lahye1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)
  6. Maktara1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)

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. Yedinci Ordu Merkez Hastahanesi220
  2. Beriyyetü'l-Kamame250
  3. Maktara750

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. 1871 to 1879 (AH 1288 to 1296)
  2. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  3. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
  5. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  6. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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; Ulu Cami Medresesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 338, 339

Read the original source accounts · 22 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 · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 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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