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Süleyman Efendi

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Bosna · Dated entries 1895 to 1911 (AH 1313 to 1329)

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 · Bosna

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

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Bosna

    Not yet located on the map: Bosna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Matbah-ı Âmire

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Matbah-ı Âmire

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 40

    2. Matbah-ı Âmire idare hademesi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 40

  3. 3

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 16 recorded years

    Matbah-ı Âmire

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328, 1329. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Matbah-ı Âmire

    1. Matbah-ı Âmire idare hademesi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Âmire Ekser kilercisi

      330 kuruşCalculated age 56

    All 23 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
1895/96 (AH 1313)100400140 to 1,5005.0%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)100450150 to 1,5753.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)100400140 to 1,4254.5%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)100400144 to 1,4004.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)160400140 to 1,44013.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)160400140 to 1,50013.4%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)180400150 to 1,52013.9%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)180400150 to 1,50013.2%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)240405150 to 1,45021.3%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)240400135 to 1,50021.3%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)280430125 to 1,50028.8%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)330450150 to 1,52536.8%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)330460135 to 1,61537.1%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)330400150 to 2,00039.7%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)330600200 to 2,00029.2%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)330500200 to 2,00030.0%732
1911 (AH 1329)330600250 to 2,50024.4%402

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. Matbah-ı Âmire17
    1895 to 1911 (AH 1313 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. Matbah-ı Âmire100 to 330

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. 1895 to 1910 (AH 1313 to 1327)
  2. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1329)
  3. 1911 (AH 1329)

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; Şahadetname (zayi) [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 297, 298

Read the original source accounts · 24 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 · 17 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 24 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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