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İstepan Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Dated entries 1883 to 1896 (AH 1301 to 1313)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

BolvadinAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Sandıklı
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Aziziye

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

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

    Aziziye

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aziziye

    1. Aşar ve İğtinam başkâtibi

      450 kuruş

    2. Aşar ve İğtinam başkâtibi (İnfisal)

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Bolvadin

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aşar ambar memuru

      400 kuruş

    2. Aşar ambar memuru (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 3 recorded years

    Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

      All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1892/93 (AH 1310)

      Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) / Sandıklı

      Within-year entry order unresolved

        All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1893/94 (AH 1311)

        Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

        Within-year entry order unresolved

          All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

          Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) / Aziziye

          AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

          Within-year entry order unresolved

          Not yet located on the map: Aziziye

          1. Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

            Ziraat Bankası şubesi memur muavini

            500 kuruş

            Continuing service as described

          2. Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

            Ziraat Bankası şubesi memur muavini (Azil)

          All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

        8 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.

        Read all 8 undated entries and their source evidence →

        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
        1883/84 (AH 1301)450400150 to 1,40055.6%1720
        1884/85 (AH 1302)450400150 to 1,50054.7%1748
        1885/86 (AH 1303)450400150 to 1,50053.6%1787
        1886/87 (AH 1304)400400150 to 1,50045.8%1725
        1887/88 (AH 1305)400400150 to 1,50043.8%1762
        1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
        1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
        1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
        1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
        1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
        1894/95 (AH 1312)500400140 to 1,50055.4%2004
        1895/96 (AH 1313)500400140 to 1,50055.1%1981

        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. 1889 to 1896 (AH 1307 to 1313)
        2. Aziziye5
          1883 to 1896 (AH 1301 to 1313)
        3. 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)
        4. 1892/93 (AH 1310)

        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. Aziziye166 to 450

        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. 1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
        2. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
        3. 1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
        4. 1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
        5. 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)

        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 Karahisar-ı Sâhib Ermeni mektepleri; hususi Türkçe öğrenimi [source]

        Honours and other personal details

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

        Sources and evidence

        1. Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları

          İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 81, 82, 83

        Read the original source accounts · 28 source entries →

        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 · 12 dated AH years

        Annual salary study and register readings

        The separate annual salary reference account has 22 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

        Open the salary study and register readings →

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