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Yorgi Efendi

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Nevşehir · Dated entries 1867 to 1899 (AH 1284 to 1316)

Languages Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival references DH. SAİD. 64/75; CDA. DH. SAİD. 64/75

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1NevşehirÇankırıSivasMytilene (Midilli)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · 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

    1848/49 (AH 1265)

    Nevşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Çankırı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Mahkeme sandık emini

      100 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 8 recorded years

    Çankırı

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mahkeme sandık emini

      100 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mahkeme sandık emini

      100 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Çankırı / Palas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Palas

    1. Çankırı

      Mahkeme sandık emini

      100 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Palas

      Mahkeme sandık emini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Palas

    Not yet located on the map: Palas

    1. Mahkeme sandık emini

      Calculated age 31

  6. 6

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Palas / Çankırı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Palas

    1. Palas

      Mahkeme sandık emini

      Calculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çankırı

      Mahkeme sandık emini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Çankırı / Sivas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Çankırı

      Mahkeme sandık emini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sivas

      Vergi Dairesi sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

  8. 8

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 3 recorded years

    Sivas

    AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vergi Dairesi sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Memur

      Calculated age 36

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 41

  10. 10

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Mytilene (Midilli)

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye nazırı

      800 kuruşCalculated age 51

2 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

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
1867/68 (AH 1284)100458150 to 2,5004.8%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)100475150 to 3,0005.0%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)100400150 to 2,2505.9%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)100400150 to 2,0005.1%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)100420.5125 to 2,3756.6%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)100450140 to 2,3506.4%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)100405130 to 2,2005.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)100450150 to 1,8004.9%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)100450150 to 2,0005.0%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)500400160 to 1,50061.0%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)500400150 to 1,50060.9%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,000400150 to 1,40081.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,000400150 to 1,40082.3%1720
1888/89 (AH 1306)600400135 to 1,50066.2%1797
1898/99 (AH 1316)800400144 to 1,40078.4%1844

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. 1867 to 1881 (AH 1284 to 1298)
  2. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  3. 1876 to 1880 (AH 1293 to 1297)
  4. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

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. Çankırı100 to 300
  2. Sivas500 to 1,000
  3. Palas225 to 300

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. 1867 to 1881 (AH 1284 to 1298)
  2. 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300)
  3. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)
  5. 1898/99 (AH 1316)
  6. 1879/80 (AH 1297)

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 Valenika mektepleri [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

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 42, 43

    DH. SAİD. 64/75; 112 CDA. DH. SAİD. 64/75. 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. 172.; CDA. DH. SAİD. 64/75

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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 · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 26 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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