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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

İsmail Nadir Efendi

Born 1876/77 (AH 1293) · Kuşadası · Dated entries 1898 to 1908 (AH 1316 to 1325)

Languages Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 146/71

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Kuşadası

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

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Kuşadası

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 23

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası

    1. Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Kuşadası / Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ

    1. Kuşadası

      Ağnam vergisi hesap kâtibi

      Calculated age 25

    2. Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ

      Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ

    1. Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Merkez muvakkit aşar ambar memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 26

      Recorded service ending

  6. 6

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Place not recorded / Kuşadası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Baş vergi tahsildarı

      Calculated age 27

    2. Kuşadası

      Mal Müdürü

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 4 recorded years

    Kuşadası

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

    1. Mal Müdürü

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal Müdürü

      200 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Kuşadası / Place not recorded / Ayasluğ

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Ayasluğ

    1. Kuşadası

      Mal Müdürü

      200 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ayasluğ

      Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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
1898/99 (AH 1316)400400144 to 1,40044.3%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)400400140 to 1,44044.1%1821
1901/02 (AH 1319)350400150 to 1,52038.7%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)200400150 to 1,50014.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)200405150 to 1,45015.2%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)200400135 to 1,50015.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)200430125 to 1,50015.8%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)200450150 to 1,52515.5%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)300460135 to 1,61529.3%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. 1900 to 1908 (AH 1318 to 1325)
  2. Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası2
    1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
  3. Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ2
    1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)
  4. Ayasluğ1
    1907/08 (AH 1325)

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. Ayasluğ ve Kuşadası400
  2. Kuşadası ve Ayasluğ350
  3. Ayasluğ300

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. 1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)
  2. 1898 to 1902 (AH 1316 to 1319)
  3. 1900/01 (AH 1318)
  4. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  5. 1907/08 (AH 1325)

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; rüştiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Rum (as recorded) · Tekellüm [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları

    GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 86, 87

    BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 146/71; 164 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 146/71.; 165 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 146/71.

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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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 20 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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