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Mustafa Efendi

Born 1869/70 (AH 1286) · Pristina (Priştine) · Dated entries 1881 to 1911 (AH 1299 to 1329)

Languages Bulgarian, Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29-105; BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 193 -477; BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29 -105

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.

1Pristina (Priştine)Skopje (Üsküp)Osmaniye
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Pristina (Priştine)

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

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi

    1. Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 13

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi / Pristina (Priştine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi

    1. Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi

      Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 14

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pristina (Priştine)

      Sancak Merkezi Evrak Mukayyitliği yardımcısı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 14

  4. 4

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Sancak Merkezi Evrak Mukayyitliği yardımcısı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 2 recorded years

    Pristina (Priştine) / Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi / Kosova

    AH entries: 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi; Kosova

    1. Pristina (Priştine)

      Sancak Merkezi Evrak Mukayyitliği yardımcısı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pristina (Priştine)

      Sancak Evrak Kalemi mukayyidi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 17

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi / Pristina (Priştine)

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi

    1. Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi

      Vilayet evrak mukayyidi

      170 kuruşCalculated age 18

    2. Pristina (Priştine)

      Sancak Evrak Kalemi mukayyidi

      170 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi / Pristina (Priştine) / Skopje (Üsküp)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi

    1. Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi

      Vilayet evrak mukayyidi

      170 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Skopje (Üsküp)

      Vilayet Merkezi Evrak mukayyidi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 19 recorded years

    Skopje (Üsküp)

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet Merkezi Evrak mukayyidi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet Merkezi Evrak mukayyidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 22 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Osmaniye / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Osmaniye

      Bidayet Mahkemesi üyesi

      700 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 42

  10. 10

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Osmaniye

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi üyesi

      Calculated age 43

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)50400150 to 1,4001.7%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)50400150 to 1,4001.6%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)80400150 to 1,5003.5%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)150400150 to 1,5009.3%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)170400150 to 1,50011.5%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)170400150 to 1,50012.4%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
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)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)300400150 to 1,52029.0%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)360400150 to 1,50042.3%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)360405150 to 1,45040.6%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)360400135 to 1,50040.1%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)410430125 to 1,50049.4%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)410450150 to 1,52548.3%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)410460135 to 1,61548.3%1290
1910/11 (AH 1328)700500200 to 2,00059.2%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. 1888 to 1908 (AH 1306 to 1325)
  2. 1882 to 1889 (AH 1300 to 1306)
  3. Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi5
    1884 to 1889 (AH 1302 to 1306)
  4. Kosova2
    1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  5. Kosova Vilayeti Şeriyye Mahkemesi Kalemi2
    1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  6. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)

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. Kosova Vilayeti Evrak Kalemi80 to 300
  2. Kosova80

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. 1888 to 1908 (AH 1306 to 1325)
  2. 1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
  3. 1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
  4. 1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  5. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  6. 1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)

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] [2]

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 Priştineli memurlar

    ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 242

    BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29-105

  2. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Priştineli memurlar

    ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 242, 243, 244

    BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 193 -477; BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 193 -477; BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 29 -105

Read the original source accounts · 49 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 · 29 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 47 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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