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Yahya Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Dagistan · Dated entries 1882 to 1908 (AH 1300 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 119/73

The career, year by year

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1DagistanSjenica (Seniçe)Kardzhali (Kırcaali)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Dagistan

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Dagistan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Bez Fabrika-i Hümayunu kâtibi

      80 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Bez Fabrika-i Hümayunu kâtibi

      80 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstifa

      Calculated age 24

  4. 4

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Sjenica (Seniçe) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sjenica (Seniçe)

      Seniçe Hastahanesi kâtibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 26

  5. 5

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 10 recorded years

    Kardzhali (Kırcaali)

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kırcaali Hastahanesi kâtibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Kırcaali Hastahanesi kâtibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Kardzhali (Kırcaali) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Kardzhali (Kırcaali)

      Kırcaali Hastahanesi kâtibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      576 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded / Yenişehir

    AH entries: 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Place not recorded

      Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      576 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      Calculated age 39

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      Calculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      Calculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded / 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube tevhit masası

    AH entries: 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube tevhit masası

    1. Place not recorded

      Levazımat-ı Umumiye Dairesi 4. şube memuru

      Calculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube memuru

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 44

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube memuru

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 3. şube müdürü

      1,440 kuruşCalculated age 48

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)80400150 to 1,4003.6%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)80400150 to 1,4003.8%1720
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,200400150 to 1,50083.7%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)1,200400150 to 1,50084.0%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)1,200400150 to 1,50082.8%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)1,200400135 to 1,50083.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,200400130 to 1,50084.8%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,200400125 to 1,50083.4%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,200400140 to 1,60083.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,200400135 to 1,50085.1%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,200400140 to 1,40085.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,200400140 to 1,50084.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,200400140 to 1,50084.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,200450150 to 1,57584.0%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)1,425400140 to 1,42590.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)1,425400144 to 1,40090.2%1844
1902/03 (AH 1320)1,080400150 to 1,50084.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,080405150 to 1,45084.1%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)1,080400135 to 1,50084.0%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,080430125 to 1,50083.8%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,080450150 to 1,52581.3%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)1,440460135 to 1,61587.0%1290

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. 1886 to 1897 (AH 1304 to 1314)
  2. 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube tevhit masası2
    1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  3. Yenişehir2
    1897 to 1899 (AH 1315 to 1316)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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. 3. Ordu Levazım Dairesi 1. şube tevhit masası1,080
  2. Yenişehir1,425

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 1897 (AH 1304 to 1314)
  2. 1896 to 1903 (AH 1314 to 1320)
  3. 1903 to 1908 (AH 1321 to 1325)
  4. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  5. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  6. 1897 to 1899 (AH 1315 to 1316)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Valide Sultan Rüştiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dağıstanlılar

    SAİT ARAS · 2023 · Pages 225, 226

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 119/73

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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