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ÖMER AVNİ EFENDİ

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1870 to 1888 (AH 1287 to 1305)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00089_00019

The career, year by year

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

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1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 10

    2. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 10

  3. 3

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 4 recorded years

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 11

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kalemi katibi

      70 kuruşCalculated age 14

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 4 recorded years

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kalemi katibi

      95 kuruşCalculated age 16

    2. Meclis-i idare kalemi refiki (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 19

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 9 recorded years

    Şehrizor sancağı

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şehrizor sancağı

    1. Muhasebe kalemi masalih-i cariye kitabeti refiki

      67.5 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Muhasebe kalemi mukayyidi

      105 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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.

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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
1874/75 (AH 1291)70450150 to 1,8002.2%882
1876/77 (AH 1293)95420150 to 2,0004.4%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)100450150 to 1,8004.4%1160
1878 (AH 1295)100450150 to 2,0003.9%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)100400150 to 2,0003.2%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)67.5400180 to 1,8002.3%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)90400160 to 1,5004.2%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)100400150 to 1,5004.4%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)100400150 to 1,4004.5%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)100400150 to 1,4004.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)100400150 to 1,5004.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)100400150 to 1,5004.8%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)100400150 to 1,5004.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)105400150 to 1,5006.4%1762

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. 1870 to 1879 (AH 1287 to 1296)
  2. Şehrizor sancağı9
    1879 to 1888 (AH 1297 to 1305)

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. Şehrizor sancağı67.5 to 105

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. 1880 to 1888 (AH 1298 to 1305)
  2. 1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  3. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  4. 1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1294)
  5. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Mekâtib-i âdiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 124, 125

    125 DH_SAİD,00089_00019

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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