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Karabet Bedros Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Kırşehir · Dated entries 1899 to 1912 (AH 1317 to 1330)

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.113/69, s.69; CDA. DH. SAİD. 113/69

The career, year by year

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1KırşehirSidirokastro (Demirhisar)Thessaloniki (Selanik)Üsküdar
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kırşehir

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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.

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

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Kırşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Place not recorded / Sidirokastro (Demirhisar) / Timurhisar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Timurhisar

    1. Place not recorded

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 27

    2. Timurhisar

      Belediye doktoru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 5 recorded years

    Timurhisar

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Timurhisar

    1. Belediye doktoru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Belediye doktoru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Thessaloniki (Selanik) / Timurhisar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Timurhisar

    1. Thessaloniki (Selanik)

      vilayet merkez tabib-i sanisi

      900 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Thessaloniki (Selanik)

      Vilayet merkez üçüncü doktoru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Üsküdar

    1. zabıta tabibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 37

  6. 6

    1911 (AH 1329) · 2 recorded years

    Üsküdar

    AH entries: 1329, 1330. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. zabıta ser tabibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 39

    2. zabıta ser tabibi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 40

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

4 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

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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
1899/1900 (AH 1317)600400140 to 1,44067.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)600400140 to 1,50067.8%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)600400150 to 1,52066.5%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)600400150 to 1,50067.8%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)600405150 to 1,45067.3%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)600400135 to 1,50066.9%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,200430125 to 1,50085.9%1423
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,200600200 to 2,00075.1%1088
1911 (AH 1329)1,200600250 to 2,50069.3%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)1,5001,000300 to 3,00062.1%233

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. Timurhisar7
    1899 to 1906 (AH 1317 to 1323)
  2. 1909 to 1912 (AH 1327 to 1330)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1905/06 (AH 1323)

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. Timurhisar600
  2. Üsküdar1,200 to 1,500

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. 1899 to 1906 (AH 1317 to 1323)
  2. 1911 to 1912 (AH 1329 to 1330)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  5. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  6. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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 [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Kırşehir doğumlu devlet adamları

    TÜLAY TERYAKİOĞLU · 2013 · Pages 125, 126

    108 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.113/69, s.69.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.113/69, s.69

  2. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Orta Anadolu (Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Niğde ve Aksaray) doğumlu gayrimüslim Osmanlı devlet memurları

    ZEYNEP ÜNSAL · 2021 · Pages 55, 56

    CDA. DH. SAİD. 113/69.; 144 CDA. DH. SAİD. 113/69.; 145 CDA. DH. SAİD. 113/69.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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