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Mustafa Hayri Efendi

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1856 to 1894 (AH 1273 to 1311)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.4, s.411

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1SafranboluIstanbul (Dersaadet)EdirneThessaloniki (Selanik)Üsküdar
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Stage 1 of 9 · Safranbolu

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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.

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  1. 1

    1839/40 (AH 1255)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. mülazım (ilamat odası)

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1857/58 (AH 1274) · 23 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. mülazım (ilamat odası)

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dördüncü Mahkeme-i Ticaret azası

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    All 35 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Edirne

    AH entries: 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Birinci Meclis-i Ticaret sicil mukayyidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    2. Edirne

      Ticaret Mahkemesi reisi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Edirne / Thessaloniki (Selanik)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Birinci Meclis-i Ticaret sicil mukayyidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Thessaloniki (Selanik)

      Ticaret Mahkemesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 44

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. İstinaf Mahkemesi Azası

      2,800 kuruşCalculated age 52

  7. 7

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Üsküdar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstinaf Mahkemesi Azası

      2,800 kuruşCalculated age 53

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üsküdar

      Mutasarrıf

      5,000 kuruşCalculated age 53

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    1. İstinaf Mahkemesi Azası

      2,800 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstinaf Mahkemesi Azası

      2,800 kuruşCalculated age 55

      Continuing service as described

  9. 9

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Üsküdar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstinaf Mahkemesi Azası

      2,800 kuruşCalculated age 56

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üsküdar

      Mutasarrıf

      6,000 kuruşCalculated age 56

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.

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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.

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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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1857/58 (AH 1274)400400100 to 3,00047.4%96
1858/59 (AH 1275)400500150 to 5,00036.5%105
1859/60 (AH 1276)400500150 to 3,35039.1%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)750500150 to 3,00062.4%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)400500150 to 3,00036.9%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)400400140 to 3,00043.9%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)750475125 to 3,00063.2%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)400400125 to 3,00047.6%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)400400150 to 2,00046.2%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)400400146 to 2,00043.0%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)1,500458150 to 2,50082.5%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)400475150 to 3,00040.9%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)400400150 to 2,25044.6%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)400400150 to 2,00044.9%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)1,500420.5125 to 2,37584.0%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)3,000450140 to 2,35091.8%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)400405130 to 2,20044.6%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)400450150 to 1,80043.5%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)2,500450150 to 2,00091.6%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)2,500420150 to 2,00092.7%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)2,500450150 to 1,80092.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)2,500450150 to 2,00092.7%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)2,500400150 to 2,00091.6%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)4,000400180 to 1,80095.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)4,000400160 to 1,50096.9%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)4,000400150 to 1,50096.8%1489
1889/90 (AH 1307)2,800400130 to 1,50096.2%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)5,000400125 to 1,50097.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,800400140 to 1,60095.8%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)2,800400135 to 1,50096.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)6,000400140 to 1,40098.4%1929

Career patterns and pay

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1856 to 1894 (AH 1273 to 1311)
  2. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  3. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)

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. Edirne4,000
  2. Üsküdar5,000 to 6,000

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
  1. 1857 to 1882 (AH 1274 to 1299)
  2. 1875 to 1880 (AH 1292 to 1297)
  3. 1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  4. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  5. 1872 to 1876 (AH 1289 to 1292)
  6. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)

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Education and personal record

Schooling Mekteb-i Maarif-i Adliye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 127, 128, 129

    88 BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.4, s.411

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 32 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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