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ÖMER LÜTFÜ EFENDİ

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1885 to 1908 (AH 1303 to 1325)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00101_00051

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)ZorBasra
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

  1. 1

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Zor

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      0 kuruşCalculated age 18

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Zor

    1. Muhasebe evrak memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 20

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 2 recorded years

    Zor / Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Zor

      Muhasebe evrak memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Zor

      Muhasebe evrak memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Zor / Muntefik / Basra

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Muntefik

    1. Zor

      Muhasebe evrak memuru (Nakil)

      Calculated age 32

      Recorded service ending

    2. Basra

      Muhasebe evrak muavini

      600 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Basra

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muhasebe evrak muavini

      600 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhasebe evrak muavini (İstifa)

      Calculated age 33

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 7 recorded years

    Zor

    AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sandık emini

      486 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Muhasebe varidat ve masarifat kitabeti muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 40

    All 9 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.

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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
1887/88 (AH 1305)250400150 to 1,50020.9%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1899/1900 (AH 1317)748.5400140 to 1,44076.2%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)600400140 to 1,50067.8%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)486400150 to 1,52054.2%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)486400150 to 1,50055.2%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)486405150 to 1,45053.7%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)420400135 to 1,50051.0%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)420430125 to 1,50049.4%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)420450150 to 1,52548.5%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)500460135 to 1,61550.6%1290

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. Zor11
    1885 to 1908 (AH 1303 to 1325)
  2. 1899 to 1901 (AH 1317 to 1318)
  3. Muntefik1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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. Zor0 to 500
  2. Muntefik748.5

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. 1904 to 1908 (AH 1322 to 1325)
  2. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  3. 1901 to 1904 (AH 1319 to 1321)
  4. 1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
  5. 1899 to 1901 (AH 1317 to 1318)
  6. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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 şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 221, 222, 223

    196 DH_SAİD,00101_00051

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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 · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 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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