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Ömer Feyzi Efendi

Born 1853/54 (AH 1270) · Bilât · Dated entries 1871 to 1897 (AH 1288 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 36/172

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

FekeSaimbeyli (Haçin)MersinAdanaKastamonu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Bilât

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

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Bilât

    Not yet located on the map: Bilât

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Feke

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Mal yazı işleri stajyeri

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 3 recorded years

    Feke

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal yazı işleri stajyeri

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Süvari Zabtiye-i Şahane kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Feke / Saimbeyli (Haçin)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Feke

      Süvari Zabtiye-i Şahane kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Saimbeyli (Haçin)

      Vergi sayım memuru ve ek kâtiplik

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 6 recorded years

    Saimbeyli (Haçin)

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vergi sayım memuru ve ek kâtiplik

      500 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vergi kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 28

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Mersin

    1. Mal Müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 30

  7. 7

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Adana

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Maliye başkanlığı vekili (Azil)

      Calculated age 34

      Recorded service ending

    2. Vilayet muhasebe mümeyyizi (Azil)

      Calculated age 34

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 8 recorded years

    Kastamonu

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet muhasebe mümeyyizi

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Vilayet muhasebe mümeyyizi (Azil)

      Calculated age 44

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

5 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
1872/73 (AH 1289)100450140 to 2,3506.4%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)100405130 to 2,2005.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)100450150 to 1,8004.9%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)500450150 to 2,00054.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)500420150 to 2,00055.0%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)500450150 to 1,80054.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)500450150 to 2,00054.4%1196
1880/81 (AH 1298)275400160 to 1,50027.2%1448
1882/83 (AH 1300)450400150 to 1,40055.0%1655
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,250400130 to 1,50086.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,250400125 to 1,50085.3%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,250400140 to 1,60085.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,250400135 to 1,50086.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,250400140 to 1,40087.3%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,250400140 to 1,50086.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,250400140 to 1,50085.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,250450150 to 1,57585.8%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 1897 (AH 1307 to 1314)
  2. 1875 to 1881 (AH 1292 to 1298)
  3. 1871 to 1876 (AH 1288 to 1292)
  4. 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
  1. Feke100 to 400

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 1897 (AH 1307 to 1314)
  2. 1872 to 1876 (AH 1289 to 1292)
  3. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1295)
  4. 1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1872/73 (AH 1289)

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

Schooling Mahalle mektebi; Sis Medresesi [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 Kozan ve Cebel-i bereketli memurlar

    SENEM ÖZDEMİR · 2019 · Pages 126, 127

    BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 36/172; 212 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 36/172.

Read the original source accounts · 43 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 · 21 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 38 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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