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Sove Efendi

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Nevşehir · Dated entries 1880 to 1890 (AH 1298 to 1307)

Languages Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1880/81 (AH 1298): Maliye kalemi görevlisi, Nevşehir1886/87 (AH 1304): Sandık sarrafı, Mağden, 300 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305): Sandık sarrafı, Mağden, 300 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306): Sandık sarrafı, Mağden, 300 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Sandık sarrafı, Mağden, 300 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Sandık sarrafı, Hacıbektaş, 400 kuruşAH 1298AH 1305AH 1307
Places and reading notes
  • Nevşehir
  • Mağden
  • Hacıbektaş

5 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 4 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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Nevşehir

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.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Nevşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Nevşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Maliye kalemi görevlisi

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 3 recorded years

    Mağden

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Mağden

    1. Sandık sarrafı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Sandık sarrafı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    3. Sandık sarrafı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Mağden / Hacıbektaş

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mağden; Hacıbektaş

    1. Mağden

      Sandık sarrafı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hacıbektaş

      Sandık sarrafı

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

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.

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
1886/87 (AH 1304)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)400400130 to 1,50046.2%1874

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001886/87AH 13041889/90AH 13071886/87 (AH 1304) · 300 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305) · 300 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306) · 300 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · 300 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · 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. Mağden4
    1886 to 1890 (AH 1304 to 1307)
  2. Hacıbektaş1
    1889/90 (AH 1307)
  3. 1880/81 (AH 1298)

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. Mağden300
  2. Hacıbektaş400

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. 1886 to 1890 (AH 1304 to 1307)
  2. 1880/81 (AH 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

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Rum Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Rum (as recorded) · İyi derecede okur yazar [source]
  • Turkish · İyi derecede okur yazar [source]

Honours and other personal details

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Nevşehir [source]
Birth year
1859/60 (AH 1276) [source]
Father’s occupation
Tüccar [source]
Nationality or community
Rum [source]
Religion
Hristiyan [source]
Archive references
CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267 [1]

Education and languages

Rum (as recorded)
İyi derecede okur yazar [source]
Turkish
İyi derecede okur yazar [source]
Education
Rum Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
22 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Nevşehir [source]
First work year
1880/81 (AH 1298) [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 Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Orta Anadolu (Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Niğde ve Aksaray) doğumlu gayrimüslim Osmanlı devlet memurları

    ZEYNEP ÜNSAL · 2021 · Pages 48, 49

    127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.; CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267.

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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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 6 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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