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Zülkifl Agâh Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Malatya · Dated entries 1888 to 1910 (AH 1306 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1888/89 (AH 1306): Jandarma Taburu Birinci Süvari Bölüğü Emini, Malatya, 110 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Jandarma Birinci Süvari Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu, Malatya, 130 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): Jandarma Piyade Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu, Malatya, 190 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): Jandarma Piyade Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu (İnfisal), Malatya1909/10 (AH 1327): Celikan Nahiye Müdürü, Celikan, 400 kuruşAH 1306AH 1327
Places and reading notes
  • Malatya
  • Celikan

3 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 4 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.

1Malatya
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Malatya

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

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Jandarma Taburu Birinci Süvari Bölüğü Emini

      110 kuruşCalculated age 16

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Malatya

    1. Jandarma Birinci Süvari Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu

      130 kuruşCalculated age 17

  4. 4

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Malatya / Celikan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Celikan

    1. Malatya

      Jandarma Piyade Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu

      190 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Malatya

      Jandarma Piyade Bölüğü İkinci Çavuşu (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 37

    3. Celikan

      Celikan Nahiye Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

1 entry 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
1888/89 (AH 1306)110400135 to 1,5007.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)130400130 to 1,5009.9%1874
1909/10 (AH 1327)400600200 to 2,00031.0%1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001888/89AH 13061899/1900AH 13171909/10AH 13271888/89 (AH 1306) · 110 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · 130 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 190 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 400 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. 1888 to 1910 (AH 1306 to 1327)
  2. Celikan1
    1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. Malatya110 to 190
  2. Celikan400

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. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  2. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  3. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

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 Elazığ Askerî Rüşdiyesi; İdadi-i Mülkiye; Malatya Rüşdiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Malatya [source]
Birth year
1873/74 (AH 1290) [source]
Father’s occupation
Jandarma Tabur Kâtibi (mütekaid) [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]
Education detail
Askerî rüşdiye 1 sene; idadi 4. sene 6 ay; Malatya Rüşdiyesi aliyyü'l-a'lâ diploma; müderrislerden Arapça [source]
Education
Elazığ Askerî Rüşdiyesi; İdadi-i Mülkiye; Malatya Rüşdiyesi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Malatya [source]
First-salary field
110 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1888/89 (AH 1306) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 353, 354, 355

Read the original source accounts · 6 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 · 3 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 5 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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