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Osman Vasfettin Efendi

Born 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Ortahisar · Dated entries 1891 to 1901 (AH 1309 to 1318)

Languages Turkish

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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 3 · Ortahisar

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.

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

  1. 1

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Ortahisar

    Not yet located on the map: Ortahisar

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Matbah-ı Hassa talebekârı

      60 kuruşCalculated age 15

  3. 3

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 9 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Matbah-ı Hassa talebekârı

      60 kuruşCalculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Amire zammı ketebesi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 15 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
1891/92 (AH 1309)60400140 to 1,6002.6%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)60400135 to 1,5002.8%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)100400140 to 1,4004.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)100400140 to 1,5005.1%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)140400140 to 1,5009.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)140450150 to 1,5758.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)200400140 to 1,42515.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)200400144 to 1,40014.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)350400140 to 1,50039.8%1761

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.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1896 to 1901 (AH 1314 to 1318)
  2. 1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  3. 1891 to 1894 (AH 1309 to 1311)

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 Mahalle Mekteb-i İbtidaisi; Ürgüp Mekteb-i Rüşdisi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Ürgüplü devlet adamları

    HATİCE KÜBRA YILDIZ · 2020 · Pages 109, 110

Read the original source accounts · 16 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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