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SALİH SALİM EFENDİ (A)

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Dobrich (Hacıoğlu Pazarcığı) · Dated entries 1882 to 1914 (AH 1300 to 1332)

Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİDd., 150/291; BOA. DH. SAİDd., 47/361

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 15 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.

1Dobrich (Hacıoğlu Pazarcığı)Mustafakemalpaşa (Kirmasti)Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye)AksarayIlgınAkşehirArdino (Eğridere)Kirkuk (Kerkük)Şanlıurfa (Urfa)Bitlis
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 15 · Dobrich (Hacıoğlu Pazarcığı)

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
    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Mustafakemalpaşa (Kirmasti) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mustafakemalpaşa (Kirmasti)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Mustafakemalpaşa (Kirmasti)

      Mal ve Tahrirat kalemleri mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Mustafakemalpaşa (Kirmasti)

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

      All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1890/91 (AH 1308)

      Place not recorded

      Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

        All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

      1. 5

        1894/95 (AH 1312)

        Sulaymaniyah (Süleymaniye) / Aksaray

        Within-year entry order unresolved

          All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

          Aksaray

          AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

          Within-year entry order unresolved

            All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

          1. 7

            1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

            Ilgın

            AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

              All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1900/01 (AH 1318)

              Ilgın / Akşehir

              Within-year entry order unresolved

                All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1901/02 (AH 1319)

                Akşehir

                  All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1902/03 (AH 1320)

                  Akşehir / Ardino (Eğridere)

                  Within-year entry order unresolved

                    All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                  1. 11

                    1905/06 (AH 1323)

                    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

                      All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

                    1. 12

                      1908/09 (AH 1326)

                      Place not recorded / Şanlıurfa (Urfa)

                      Within-year entry order unresolved

                      Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

                        All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

                      1. 13

                        1909/10 (AH 1327)

                        Şanlıurfa (Urfa) / Bitlis

                        Within-year entry order unresolved

                          All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

                        1. 14

                          1910/11 (AH 1328)

                          Place not recorded

                          Within-year entry order unresolved

                          Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

                            All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                          1. 15

                            1913/14 (AH 1332)

                            Place not recorded

                            Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

                            1. Azil

                              Calculated age 48

                          27 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.

                          Read all 27 undated entries and their source evidence →

                          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
                          1894/95 (AH 1312)1,250400140 to 1,50086.4%2004
                          1895/96 (AH 1313)1,250400140 to 1,50085.9%1981
                          1896/97 (AH 1314)1,250450150 to 1,57585.8%2119
                          1898/99 (AH 1316)908400144 to 1,40082.6%1844
                          1899/1900 (AH 1317)908400140 to 1,44082.5%1821
                          1900/01 (AH 1318)1,125400140 to 1,50086.0%1761
                          1901/02 (AH 1319)1,125400150 to 1,52084.1%1666
                          1902/03 (AH 1320)1,575400150 to 1,50091.6%1627
                          1905/06 (AH 1323)6,750430125 to 1,50098.7%1423
                          1908/09 (AH 1326)5,400400150 to 2,00096.6%1232
                          1909/10 (AH 1327)8,333.5600200 to 2,00098.0%1088
                          1910/11 (AH 1328)2,083500200 to 2,00092.8%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. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
                          2. 1900 to 1903 (AH 1318 to 1320)
                          3. 1898 to 1901 (AH 1316 to 1318)
                          4. 1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
                          5. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
                          6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

                          The six most recorded places. 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. Aksaray1,125 to 1,250
                          2. Şanlıurfa (Urfa)5,000 to 5,400
                          3. Bitlis8,333.5

                          Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1894 to 1903 (AH 1312 to 1320)
                          2. 1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
                          3. 1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
                          4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
                          5. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
                          6. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

                          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; Ulûm-ı siyasiye şehadetnamesi, karîbü’l-a‘lâ derece [1]

                          Schooling İbtidai mektepler; Bursa Rüşdiyesi; Mekteb-i Mülkiye idadi ve âli kısımları [source]

                          Language skills and historical terms

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

                          All personal fields and their sources

                          Sources and evidence

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

                            İSA ÖZHAN · 2024 · Pages 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210

                            BOA. DH. SAİDd., 150/291; 325 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 47/361.; 326 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 150/291.; BOA. DH. SAİDd., 150/291

                          Read the original source accounts · 56 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 28 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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