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İbrahim Ethem Efendi

Born 1862/63 (AH 1279) · Sivas · Dated entries 1878 to 1897 (AH 1295 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00062,s.87

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1878 (AH 1295): telgraf öğrencisi, Tokat1881/82 (AH 1299): merkez muhabere memuru, Alacahan, 400 kuruş1882/83 (AH 1300): merkez posta kâtibi, Sivas1883/84 (AH 1301): baş müdüriyet kâtibi, Diyarbakır, 500 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): telgraf muhabere memuru, Aziziye, 500 kuruş1891/92 (AH 1309): telgraf muhabere memuru, Tokat, 400 kuruş1892/93 (AH 1310): telgraf muhabere memuru, Tokat, 400 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311): telgraf muhabere memuru, Tokat, 400 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312): mutasarrıflık konağı telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru, Tokat, 400 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313): telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru, Mersin, 400 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314): telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü, Niksar, 400 kuruşAH 1295AH 1300AH 1310AH 1314
Places and reading notes
  • Tokat
  • Alacahan
  • Sivas
  • Diyarbakır
  • Aziziye
  • Mersin
  • Niksar

11 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 9 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.

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

Stage 1 of 9 · Sivas

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

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Tokat telgrafhanesi / Tokat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat telgrafhanesi

    1. Tokat telgrafhanesi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Tokat

      telgraf öğrencisi

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Alacahan

    1. merkez muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 20

  4. 4

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Sivas

    1. merkez posta kâtibi

      Calculated age 21

  5. 5

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Diyarbakır

    1. baş müdüriyet kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Aziziye

    Not yet located on the map: Aziziye

    1. telgraf muhabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 24

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 4 recorded years

    Tokat

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    1. telgraf muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. telgraf muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    3. telgraf muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    4. mutasarrıflık konağı telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 33

  8. 8

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Mersin

    1. telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 34

  9. 9

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Niksar

    1. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 35

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.

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.

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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
1881/82 (AH 1299)400400150 to 1,50046.6%1489
1883/84 (AH 1301)500400150 to 1,40060.4%1720
1885/86 (AH 1303)500400150 to 1,50058.1%1787
1891/92 (AH 1309)400400140 to 1,60045.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)400400135 to 1,50045.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)400400140 to 1,40044.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02505001881/82AH 12991889/90AH 13071896/97AH 13141881/82 (AH 1299) · 400 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301) · 500 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · 500 kuruş1891/92 (AH 1309) · 400 kuruş1892/93 (AH 1310) · 400 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 400 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 400 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 400 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. 1878 to 1895 (AH 1295 to 1312)
  2. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  3. Aziziye1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)
  4. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  5. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  6. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

The six most recorded places. 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. Aziziye500

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. 1885 to 1894 (AH 1303 to 1311)
  2. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  3. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  5. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  6. 1878 (AH 1295)

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 Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1862/63 (AH 1279) [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d.nr.00062,s.87 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Tokat telgrafhanesi [source]
First work year
1878 (AH 1295) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 208, 209

    359 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00062,s.87

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 11 dated AH years

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