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İbrahim Edhem Efendi

Born 1850/51 (AH 1267) · Bosna · Dated entries 1872 to 1910 (AH 1289 to 1327)

Languages French, Turkish

The career, year by year

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

Follow 14 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.

Zvornik (İzvornik)Trikala (Tırhala)AydınKonyaBandırmaTekirdağ
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 14 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1850/51 (AH 1267)

    Bosna

    Not yet located on the map: Bosna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 6 recorded years

    Zvornik (İzvornik)

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sancak baytarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Sancak baytarı

      750 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Zvornik (İzvornik) / Trikala (Tırhala)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

      All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1878/79 (AH 1296)

      Trikala (Tırhala)

      Within-year entry order unresolved

        All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1886/87 (AH 1304)

        Karesi

        Not yet located on the map: Karesi

          All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

        1. 6

          1887/88 (AH 1305) · 4 recorded years

          Aydın

          AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

            All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

          1. 7

            1891/92 (AH 1309)

            Aydın / Konya

            Within-year entry order unresolved

              All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1892/93 (AH 1310) · 2 recorded years

              Konya

              AH entries: 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

                All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1894/95 (AH 1312)

                Konya / Ankara; Eskişehir

                Within-year entry order unresolved

                Not yet located on the map: Ankara; Eskişehir

                  All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

                  Ankara; Eskişehir

                  AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

                  Within-year entry order unresolved

                  Not yet located on the map: Ankara; Eskişehir

                    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

                  1. 11

                    1897/98 (AH 1315)

                    Ankara; Eskişehir / Bandırma

                    Within-year entry order unresolved

                    Not yet located on the map: Ankara; Eskişehir

                      All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                    1. 12

                      1898/99 (AH 1316)

                      Bandırma / Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                      Within-year entry order unresolved

                      Not yet located on the map: Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                        All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                      1. 13

                        1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 6 recorded years

                        Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                        AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

                        Not yet located on the map: Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                          All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

                        1. 14

                          1905/06 (AH 1323) · 5 recorded years

                          Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı / Tekirdağ

                          AH entries: 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

                          Within-year entry order unresolved

                          Not yet located on the map: Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                          1. Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı

                            Sancaklar sıhhiye baytarı

                            1,350 kuruşCalculated age 56

                            Continuing service as described

                          2. Tekirdağ

                            Muayene-i Hayvaniye memuru (Azil)

                            Calculated age 60

                          All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

                        8 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 8 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
                        1872/73 (AH 1289)300450140 to 2,35031.7%736
                        1873/74 (AH 1290)300405130 to 2,20032.6%805
                        1874/75 (AH 1291)300450150 to 1,80030.2%882
                        1875/76 (AH 1292)750450150 to 2,00070.9%976
                        1876/77 (AH 1293)750420150 to 2,00070.6%1102
                        1877/78 (AH 1294)750450150 to 1,80070.9%1160
                        1878 (AH 1295)750450150 to 2,00071.5%1196
                        1878/79 (AH 1296)750400150 to 2,00070.5%1328
                        1886/87 (AH 1304)1,200400150 to 1,50084.0%1725
                        1887/88 (AH 1305)1,200400150 to 1,50082.8%1762
                        1888/89 (AH 1306)1,200400135 to 1,50083.6%1797
                        1889/90 (AH 1307)1,200400130 to 1,50084.8%1874
                        1890/91 (AH 1308)1,200400125 to 1,50083.4%1896
                        1891/92 (AH 1309)1,500400140 to 1,60088.4%1927
                        1892/93 (AH 1310)1,500400135 to 1,50089.3%1935
                        1893/94 (AH 1311)1,500400140 to 1,40090.3%1929
                        1894/95 (AH 1312)1,500400140 to 1,50089.7%2004
                        1895/96 (AH 1313)1,500400140 to 1,50089.0%1981
                        1896/97 (AH 1314)1,500450150 to 1,57588.6%2119
                        1897/98 (AH 1315)1,350400140 to 1,42589.3%1891
                        1898/99 (AH 1316)1,350400144 to 1,40089.4%1844
                        1899/1900 (AH 1317)1,350400140 to 1,44089.3%1821
                        1900/01 (AH 1318)1,350400140 to 1,50089.0%1761
                        1901/02 (AH 1319)1,350400150 to 1,52087.6%1666
                        1902/03 (AH 1320)1,350400150 to 1,50088.8%1627
                        1903/04 (AH 1321)1,350405150 to 1,45088.7%1578
                        1904/05 (AH 1322)1,350400135 to 1,50088.5%1493
                        1905/06 (AH 1323)1,350430125 to 1,50088.5%1423
                        1906/07 (AH 1324)1,350450150 to 1,52587.1%1371
                        1907/08 (AH 1325)1,350460135 to 1,61586.2%1290
                        1908/09 (AH 1326)1,350400150 to 2,00083.9%1232
                        1909/10 (AH 1327)1,350600200 to 2,00078.8%1088

                        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. Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı12
                          1898 to 1910 (AH 1316 to 1327)
                        2. 1872 to 1878 (AH 1289 to 1295)
                        3. 1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)
                        4. 1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
                        5. Ankara; Eskişehir4
                          1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)
                        6. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)

                        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. Gelibolu; Tekfurdağı1,350
                        2. Aydın1,200
                        3. Ankara; Eskişehir1,350 to 1,500
                        4. Konya1,500

                        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. 1898 to 1910 (AH 1316 to 1327)
                        2. 1872 to 1879 (AH 1289 to 1296)
                        3. 1897 to 1910 (AH 1315 to 1327)
                        4. 1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)
                        5. 1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)
                        6. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)

                        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 ve baytarlık şahadetnameleri [1]

                        Schooling Tuzla-i Zir Rüşdiyesi; Mülkiye Baytar Mektebi [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. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

                          DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 181, 182, 183, 184

                        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 · 32 dated AH years

                        Annual salary study and register readings

                        The separate annual salary reference account has 49 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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