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Mustafa Efendi

Born 1853/54 (AH 1270) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1867 to 1887 (AH 1284 to 1304)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00011_00026

The career, year by year

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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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)Baghdad (Bağdat)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Zor sancağı tahrirat kalemi / Zor sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı tahrirat kalemi; Zor sancağı

    1. Zor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Zor sancağı

      tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 4 recorded years

    Zor sancağı

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      75 kuruşCalculated age 18

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Zor sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. tahrirat kalemi mukayyidi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 20

  5. 5

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Hanekin kazası

    Not yet located on the map: Hanekin kazası

    1. tahrirat katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

  6. 6

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Kazımiyye kazası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazımiyye kazası

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      tadad-ı ağnam katibi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. Kazımiyye kazası

      belediye katibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 24

  7. 7

    1878 (AH 1295) · 2 recorded years

    Kazımiyye kazası

    AH entries: 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazımiyye kazası

    1. belediye katibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrirat katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Kazımiyye kazası / Hille kazası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazımiyye kazası; Hille kazası

    1. Kazımiyye kazası

      belediye katibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Hille kazası

      aşar birinci katibi

      480 kuruşCalculated age 29

  9. 9

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Hille kazası

    Not yet located on the map: Hille kazası

    1. bidayet mahkemesi aza mülazımı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

  10. 10

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Hille kazası

    Not yet located on the map: Hille kazası

    1. bidayet mahkemesi zabıt katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 34

3 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
1871/72 (AH 1288)75420.5125 to 2,3754.4%712
1873/74 (AH 1290)125405130 to 2,2009.2%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)300450150 to 1,80030.2%882
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,200450150 to 1,80082.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)200450150 to 2,00014.6%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1881/82 (AH 1299)480400150 to 1,50059.7%1489
1883/84 (AH 1301)300400150 to 1,40028.3%1720
1886/87 (AH 1304)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1725

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. Zor sancağı6
    1867 to 1874 (AH 1284 to 1290)
  2. Kazımiyye kazası4
    1877 to 1882 (AH 1294 to 1299)
  3. Hille kazası3
    1881 to 1887 (AH 1299 to 1304)
  4. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
  5. Hanekin kazası1
    1874/75 (AH 1291)

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. Zor sancağı75 to 125
  2. Kazımiyye kazası200 to 300
  3. Hille kazası300 to 480
  4. Hanekin kazası300

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 1872 (AH 1284 to 1288)
  2. 1877 to 1882 (AH 1294 to 1299)
  3. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  6. 1886/87 (AH 1304)

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 Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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 Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 60, 61

    66 DH_SAİD,00011_00026

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

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