Kalas Başşehbenderi Manuk Azaryan

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1870 to 1883 (AH 1287 to 1300)

Languages Armenian, French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Russian, Turkish

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The life

Kalas Başşehbenderi Manuk Azaryan was born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1849/50 (AH 1266). Schooling included Ortaköy Ermeni Rüştiyesi; Paris Sant Farbe Mektebi; Paris Collège de France. The language repertoire included Armenian, French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Russian and Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye in 1870/71 (AH 1287). Dated career entries span 1870/71 (AH 1287) to 1882/83 (AH 1300) across 12 AH years, from Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye to Korfu, beginning with Fransızca Muallimi and ending with entries for Başşehbender. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye, Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası, Hersek ve Bosna Kumandanlığı and Hocabey and 2 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 500 kuruş in 1870/71 (AH 1287) to 3,000 kuruş in 1882/83 (AH 1300); the highest recorded monthly rate is 4,000 kuruş in 1878/79 (AH 1296).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 1849/50 (AH 1266)^[source]
Education: Ortaköy Ermeni Rüştiyesi; Paris Sant Farbe Mektebi; Paris Collège de France^[source]
First work: 1870/71 (AH 1287) · Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye^[source]
Age at first work: 20^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 500 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

12
Dated AH years: 6
Career place names: 1
Entries without a resolved year: 10
Salary years: 500 → 3,000
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 4,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 95.8%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1870/71 (AH 1287) to 1882/83 (AH 1300); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1882/83 (AH 1300).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 11 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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1
1849/50 (AH 1266)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 21
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Fransızca Muallimi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 21
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1871/72 (AH 1288)
Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye
1. Fransızca Muallimi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Fransızca Muallimi
  700 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1873/74 (AH 1290)
Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası
Not yet located on the map: Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası
1. Sadrazam tercümanlığı ile Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası memuru
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1874/75 (AH 1291)
Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası; Location not recorded
1. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası
  Sadrazam tercümanlığı ile Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası memuru
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Sadrazam tercümanlığından ayrılma (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1875/76 (AH 1292)
Hersek ve Bosna Kumandanlığı
Not yet located on the map: Hersek ve Bosna Kumandanlığı
1. Baştercüman unvanıyla politika müdürü
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1876/77 (AH 1293)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Rütbe-i saniye sınıf-ı mütemeyyizi
  Calculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1878 (AH 1295)
Hocabey
Not yet located on the map: Hocabey
1. Fahri başşehbender
  Calculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years
Petersburg Sefareti
AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Petersburg Sefareti
1. Sefaret birinci kâtibi
  4,000 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sefaret birinci kâtibi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1881/82 (AH 1299)
Petersburg Sefareti / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Petersburg Sefareti; Location not recorded
1. Petersburg Sefareti
  Sefaret birinci kâtibi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 33
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Korfu
Not yet located on the map: Korfu
1. Başşehbender
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Başşehbender · Korfu · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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

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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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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1870/71 (AH 1287)	500	400	150 to 2,000	54.9%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	700	420.5	125 to 2,375	67.4%	712
1873/74 (AH 1290)	1,500	405	130 to 2,200	84.7%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	1,500	450	150 to 1,800	87.0%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	3,000	450	150 to 2,000	92.7%	976
1878/79 (AH 1296)	4,000	400	150 to 2,000	95.1%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	4,000	400	180 to 1,800	95.6%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	3,000	400	160 to 1,500	95.6%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.4%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	3,000	400	150 to 1,400	95.8%	1655

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Petersburg Sefareti4
1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye2
1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası2
1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
Hersek ve Bosna Kumandanlığı1
1875/76 (AH 1292)
Hocabey1
1878 (AH 1295)
Korfu1
1882/83 (AH 1300)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Petersburg Sefareti3,000 to 4,000
Mekteb-i Fünun-i Harbiye500 to 700
Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası1,500
Hersek ve Bosna Kumandanlığı3,000
Korfu3,000

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

Sefaret birinci kâtibi4
1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
Fransızca Muallimi2
1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
Sadrazam tercümanlığı ile Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Odası memuru2
1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
Başşehbender1
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Baştercüman unvanıyla politika müdürü1
1875/76 (AH 1292)
Fahri başşehbender1
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

Istanbul665 other officialsAhmet Şevki Efendi born 1849/50 (AH 1266); no salary recorded
1870/71 (AH 1287)103 other officialsAhmed Galib Efendi first annual entry 1870/71 (AH 1287); highest salary 400 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Ortaköy Ermeni Rüştiyesi; Paris Sant Farbe Mektebi; Paris Collège de France^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Armenian · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]
French · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]
Italian · Tekellüm^[source]
Rum (as recorded) · Tekellüm^[source]
Russian · Aşina^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 0 (recorded code)^[source]
Judicial record as worded: 0 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)
BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 247, 248

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 12 dated AH years

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