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Süleyman Servet Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Antakya · Dated entries 1884 to 1911 (AH 1302 to 1328)

Languages Persian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:130,s.157

The career, year by year

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

Follow 11 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.

1AntakyaBelenIdlib (İdlib)ZorCebeli bereketAdanaBasraMidyat
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Antakya

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

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Antakya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Antakya / Antakya Bidayet Mahkemesi ve Halep Heyet-i İthamiye kalemleri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Antakya Bidayet Mahkemesi ve Halep Heyet-i İthamiye kalemleri

    1. Antakya

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Antakya Bidayet Mahkemesi ve Halep Heyet-i İthamiye kalemleri

      stajyer

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Bab

    Not yet located on the map: Bab

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 22

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Belen

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantık muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Idlib (İdlib)

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 27

  6. 6

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

    Antakya

    AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. kâtib-i sani

      225 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. mukavelat muharriri vekili

      305 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Antakya / Place not recorded / Zor

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Antakya

      mukavelat muharriri vekili (İstifa)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

    2. Zor

      Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantığı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Zor / Cebeli bereket

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Zor

      Bidayet Mahkemesi müstantığı (İstifa)

      Calculated age 32

      Recorded service ending

    2. Cebeli bereket

      müstantık

      750 kuruşCalculated age 32

  9. 9

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Adana

    1. Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi sermüstantığı

      900 kuruşCalculated age 33

  10. 10

    1907/08 (AH 1325) · 3 recorded years

    Basra

    AH entries: 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi sermüstantığı

      900 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi sermüstantığı (İstifa)

      Calculated age 39

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Midyat

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi reisi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 40

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

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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
1892/93 (AH 1310)225400135 to 1,50019.5%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1897/98 (AH 1315)225400140 to 1,42519.3%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)225400144 to 1,40019.2%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)305400140 to 1,44037.3%1821
1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)750400150 to 1,50075.6%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)900405150 to 1,45079.2%1578
1907/08 (AH 1325)900460135 to 1,61575.1%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)900400150 to 2,00073.7%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)900600200 to 2,00067.2%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)1,200500200 to 2,00076.2%732

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. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
  2. 1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  3. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  4. Antakya Bidayet Mahkemesi ve Halep Heyet-i İthamiye kalemleri1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)
  5. Bab1
    1892/93 (AH 1310)
  6. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

The six most recorded places. 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. Antakya225 to 305
  2. Bab225

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)
  2. 1892 to 1898 (AH 1310 to 1315)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1901/02 (AH 1319)
  5. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  6. 1910/11 (AH 1328)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; rüştiye diploması [1]

Schooling İptidai ve rüştiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Persian · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

    NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 223, 224, 225

    BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:130,s.157

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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