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İsmail Efendi (B)

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Dated entries 1874 to 1884 (AH 1291 to 1301)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 6/167

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 3 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.

1Komotini (Gümülcine)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Komotini (Gümülcine)

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. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Komotini (Gümülcine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Komotini (Gümülcine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 10 recorded years

    Komotini (Gümülcine)

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi Kalemi mülazımı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 16

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi başkâtibi

      Calculated age 25

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1875/76 (AH 1292)50450150 to 2,0001.4%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)50420150 to 2,0001.5%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)50450150 to 1,8002.1%1160
1878 (AH 1295)50450150 to 2,0001.3%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)600400160 to 1,50068.2%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)600400150 to 1,50067.9%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)600400150 to 1,40067.4%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)600400150 to 1,40068.1%1720

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. 1874 to 1884 (AH 1291 to 1301)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  2. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  3. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)

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; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Gümülcine Rüşdiye 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)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Gümülcineli devlet adamları

    ŞEHADET ORAN · 2025 · Pages 92, 93

    BOA. DH. SAİDd., 6/167; 191 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 6/167.

Read the original source accounts · 15 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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How to read the records

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