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İSMAİL HAKKI EFENDİ(A)

Born 1862/63 (AH 1279) · Varna · Dated entries 1886 to 1897 (AH 1304 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 61/467

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1VarnaIstanbul (Dersaadet)BüyükadaGeyveBodrumTavas
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Varna

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

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Varna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Trablusgarb

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trablusgarb

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Duyûn-ı Umûmiye Nezareti kolcusu

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years

    Trablusgarb

    AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Trablusgarb

    1. Duyûn-ı Umûmiye Nezareti kolcusu

      200 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Duyûn-ı Umûmiye Nezareti tuz veznedarı

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Place not recorded / Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Büyükada

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 28

    2. Büyükada

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye kolcusu

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years

    Büyükada

    AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Duyûn-ı Umûmiye kolcusu

      200 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Duyûn-ı Umûmiye kolcusu

      225 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Büyükada / Geyve

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Büyükada

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye kolcusu

      225 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Geyve

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye aşar kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

  7. 7

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Geyve / Katırlı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Katırlı

    1. Geyve

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye aşar kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Katırlı

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Katırlı / Place not recorded / Cubul Memlehası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Katırlı; Location not recorded; Cubul Memlehası

    1. Katırlı

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Cubul Memlehası

      Memleha piyade bölük emini

      250 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Cubul Memlehası / Place not recorded / Bodrum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cubul Memlehası; Location not recorded

    1. Cubul Memlehası

      Memleha piyade bölük emini

      250 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bodrum

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Bodrum / Tavas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bodrum

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tavas

      Duyûn-ı Umûmiye memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 35

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
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)225400125 to 1,50020.1%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)225400140 to 1,60019.4%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)450400140 to 1,50052.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)350400140 to 1,50038.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119

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. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  2. Trablusgarb3
    1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  3. 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  4. Cubul Memlehası2
    1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  5. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  6. Katırlı2
    1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)

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. Büyükada200 to 225
  2. Trablusgarb200
  3. Cubul Memlehası250 to 450
  4. Katırlı300

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 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  2. 1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  3. 1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  4. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  5. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  6. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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; Şehadetname [1]

Schooling Varna sıbyan ve rüşdiye mektepleri [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 Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Varnalı devlet adamları

    İSA ÖZHAN · 2024 · Pages 124, 125, 126

    275 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 61/467.

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 25 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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