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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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İsmail Şevki Efendi

Born 1825/26 (AH 1241) · Sivas · Dated entries 1853 to 1890 (AH 1270 to 1307)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1853/54 (AH 1270): Niyabet-i şeriye istihdamı, place unspecified1866/67 (AH 1283): Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyidi, Sivas vilayeti merkezi, 500 kuruş1870/71 (AH 1287): Mal Müdürü, Kocgiri, 750 kuruş1870/71 (AH 1287): Mal Müdürü, Kocgiri, 600 kuruş1872/73 (AH 1289): Evkaf muhasebecisi, Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)1882/83 (AH 1300): Evkaf muhasebecisi, Diyarbakır, 1,500 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Evkaf muhasebecisi, Basra, 2,000 kuruşAH 1270AH 1300AH 1307
Places and reading notes
  • Sivas vilayeti merkezi
  • Kocgiri
  • Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)
  • Diyarbakır
  • Basra

6 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 7 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.

1SivasKocgiriKahramanmaraş (Maraş)DiyarbakırBasra
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Sivas

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.

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

  1. 1

    1825/26 (AH 1241)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Niyabet-i şeriye / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Niyabet-i şeriye; Location not recorded

    1. Niyabet-i şeriye

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 29

    2. Place not recorded

      Niyabet-i şeriye istihdamı

      Calculated age 29

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Sivas vilayeti merkezi

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti merkezi

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyidi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 42

  4. 4

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Kocgiri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü

      750 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. Mal Müdürü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 46

  5. 5

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)

    1. Evkaf muhasebecisi

      Calculated age 48

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Diyarbakır

    1. Evkaf muhasebecisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 59

  7. 7

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Basra

    1. Evkaf muhasebecisi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 66

4 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.

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
1866/67 (AH 1283)500400146 to 2,00055.0%399
1870/71 (AH 1287)750400150 to 2,00071.0%649
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,500400150 to 1,40090.1%1655
1889/90 (AH 1307)2,000400130 to 1,50092.9%1874

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01,0002,0001866/67AH 12831878AH 12951889/90AH 13071866/67 (AH 1283) · 500 kuruş1870/71 (AH 1287) · 750 kuruş1870/71 (AH 1287) · 600 kuruş1882/83 (AH 1300) · 1,500 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2,000 kuruş

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. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  2. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  4. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  5. Sivas vilayeti merkezi1
    1866/67 (AH 1283)

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. Basra2,000
  2. Kocgiri600 to 750
  3. Sivas vilayeti merkezi500

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. 1872 to 1890 (AH 1289 to 1307)
  2. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  3. 1866/67 (AH 1283)
  4. 1853/54 (AH 1270)

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 Sıbyan mektebi; Gök Medrese [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

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1825/26 (AH 1241) [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Gök Medrese [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
29 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Niyabet-i şeriye [source]
First work year
1853/54 (AH 1270) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 222, 223

Read the original source accounts · 11 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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 7 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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