İsmail Firaki Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Sivas · Dated entries 1883 to 1899 (AH 1301 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00014,s.275

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The life

İsmail Firaki Efendi was born in Sivas in 1863/64 (AH 1280). Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Gök Medresesi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Koyulhisar. Dated career entries span 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1898/99 (AH 1316) across 12 AH years, from Suşehri to Tozanlı, beginning with vergi kâtibi refiki and ending with entries for nahiye vergi kâtibi. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Suşehri, Koyulhisar, Tonos and Baharözü and 1 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 250 kuruş in 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 250 kuruş in 1894/95 (AH 1312); the highest recorded monthly rate is 250 kuruş in 1883/84 (AH 1301).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Sivas · 1863/64 (AH 1280)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Gök Medresesi^[source]
First work: Koyulhisar^[source]
First salary: 150 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

12
Dated AH years: 5
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 11
Salary years: 250 → 250
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 250
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 21.9%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1894/95 (AH 1312); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1894/95 (AH 1312).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 7 · Sivas

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1
1863/64 (AH 1280)
Sivas
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1883/84 (AH 1301)
Suşehri
1. vergi kâtibi refiki
  250 kuruşCalculated age 21
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1884/85 (AH 1302) · 7 recorded years
Koyulhisar
AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.
1. vergi kâtibi refiki
  250 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. vergi kâtibi refiki
  250 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 7 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Koyulhisar / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Koyulhisar
  vergi kâtibi refiki
  250 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Tonos
Not yet located on the map: Tonos
1. vergi kâtibi refiki
  200 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Baharözü
Not yet located on the map: Baharözü
1. vergi kâtibi
  250 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Tozanlı
Not yet located on the map: Tozanlı
1. nahiye vergi kâtibi
  Calculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]

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.

tahrir ve vergi kâtibi refiki (stajyer) · Koyulhisar · Undated · 150 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
tahrir ve vergi kâtibi refiki · Koyulhisar · Undated · 250 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · Koyulhisar · Year not recorded

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

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1883/84 (AH 1301)	250	400	150 to 1,400	19.6%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	250	400	150 to 1,500	19.9%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	250	400	150 to 1,500	19.6%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	250	400	150 to 1,500	20.1%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	250	400	150 to 1,500	20.9%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	250	400	135 to 1,500	21.7%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	250	400	130 to 1,500	21.3%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	250	400	125 to 1,500	21.5%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	250	400	140 to 1,600	21.3%	1927
1893/94 (AH 1311)	200	400	140 to 1,400	14.0%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	250	400	140 to 1,500	21.9%	2004

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Koyulhisar8
1884 to 1892 (AH 1302 to 1309)
Baharözü1
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Suşehri1
1883/84 (AH 1301)
Tonos1
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Tozanlı1
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

Koyulhisar250
Baharözü250
Suşehri250
Tonos200

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

vergi kâtibi refiki10
1883 to 1894 (AH 1301 to 1311)
Infisal1
1891/92 (AH 1309)
nahiye vergi kâtibi1
1898/99 (AH 1316)
vergi kâtibi1
1894/95 (AH 1312)

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

Sivas398 other officialsAli Rıza Efendi born 1863/64 (AH 1280); highest salary 320 kuruş
Koyulhisar2 other officialsAhmed Besim Efendi 1 shared year; highest salary 600 kuruş
1883/84 (AH 1301)217 other officialsAli Cemal Efendi first entry in Istanbul; highest salary 800 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Gök Medresesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 0 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları
NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 224, 225
388 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00014,s.275; DH.SAİD.d.nr.00014,s.275

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 12 dated AH years

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