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Nikola Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Aleppo (Halep) · Dated entries 1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd. 63 50

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1882/83 (AH 1300): Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı, Beirut (Beyrut), 250 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301): Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı, Beirut (Beyrut), 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302): Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı, Beirut (Beyrut), 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302): İthalat ciheti birinci markacılığı, Beirut (Beyrut), 300 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): İthalat ciheti birinci markacılığı, Beirut (Beyrut), 300 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): İblağ memuriyeti, Beirut (Beyrut), 400 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): İtibar-ı memuriyeti, Beirut (Beyrut), 400 kuruş1891/92 (AH 1309): Beyrut Gümrüğü görevi (İnfisal), Beirut (Beyrut)1891/92 (AH 1309): Mubassırlık, Beirut (Beyrut)AH 1300AH 1309
Places and reading notes
  • Beirut (Beyrut)

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.

1Aleppo (Halep)Beirut (Beyrut)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Aleppo (Halep)

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. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Aleppo (Halep)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beyrut Gümrüğü sarfiyat markacılığı

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    3. İthalat ciheti birinci markacılığı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

    4. İthalat ciheti birinci markacılığı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    5. İblağ memuriyeti

      400 kuruşCalculated age 26

    6. İtibar-ı memuriyeti

      400 kuruşCalculated age 26

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Beyrut Gümrüğü görevi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 32

    2. Mubassırlık

      Calculated age 32

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)250400150 to 1,40019.4%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)250400150 to 1,40019.6%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)400400150 to 1,50044.7%1787

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001882/83AH 13001885/86AH 13031882/83 (AH 1300) · 250 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301) · 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 300 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · 300 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · 400 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · 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. 1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)

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. Beirut (Beyrut)250 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. 1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
  2. 1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  3. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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 Ortodoks millet mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Halep [source]
Birth year
1860/61 (AH 1277) [source]
Nationality or community
Rum [source]
Religion
Katolik Hristiyan [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİDd. 63 50 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
hâkim [source]
Turkish
hâkim [source]
Education
Ortodoks millet mektebi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
23 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Beyrut [source]
First-salary field
250 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Halep doğumlu gayrimüslim memurlar

    ZEYNEP ÖTKÜN · 2023 · Pages 58, 59

    BOA. DH. SAİDd. 63 50

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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 9 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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