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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Tatar Ağası Zade Hafız Abdullah Efendi

Born 1847/48 (AH 1264) · Kemah · Dated entries 1868 to 1897 (AH 1285 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.7/174

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1868/69 (AH 1285): telgraf mülazımı, Telgraf merkezi1870/71 (AH 1287): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye, 300 kuruş1871/72 (AH 1288): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye1872/73 (AH 1289): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye1873/74 (AH 1290): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye1874/75 (AH 1291): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye1874/75 (AH 1291): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye, 350 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291): telgraf muhabere memuru, Mecidiye, 380 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314): telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü, Hacıköy, 400 kuruşAH 1285AH 1314
Places and reading notes
  • Telgraf merkezi
  • Mecidiye
  • Hacıköy

7 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

1Kemah
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Kemah

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

    1847/48 (AH 1264)

    Kemah

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Telgraf merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Telgraf merkezi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. telgraf mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 5 recorded years

    Mecidiye

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mecidiye

    1. telgraf muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. telgraf muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    3. telgraf muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    4. telgraf muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    5. telgraf muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    6. telgraf muhabere memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 27

    7. telgraf muhabere memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 27

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Hacıköy

    Not yet located on the map: Hacıköy

    1. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 50

2 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
1870/71 (AH 1287)300400150 to 2,00030.7%649
1874/75 (AH 1291)380450150 to 1,80041.1%882
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001870/71AH 12871883/84AH 13011896/97AH 13141870/71 (AH 1287) · 300 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 350 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 380 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314) · 400 kuruş

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. Mecidiye5
    1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  2. Hacıköy1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)
  3. Telgraf merkezi1
    1868/69 (AH 1285)

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. Mecidiye300 to 380
  2. Hacıköy400

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. 1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  2. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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; Sıbyan mektebi mezunu [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Muallim-i Mahsus [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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kemah [source]
Birth province
Erzurum [source]
Birth year
1847/48 (AH 1264) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d.7/174 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Sıbyan mektebi mezunu [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Muallim-i Mahsus [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
21 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Telgraf merkezi [source]
First work year
1868/69 (AH 1285) [source]
Apprenticeship
2.29 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 50, 51

    50 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.7/174.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d.7/174

Read the original source accounts · 11 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 · 7 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 9 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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