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Ömer Celal Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kemah · Dated entries 1893 to 1899 (AH 1311 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.122/78

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1893/94 (AH 1311): muvakkat 2. kâtip, Kür memlehası, 500 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312): muvakkat 2. kâtip, Kür memlehası, 500 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312): muvakkat 2. kâtip (Görevin sona ermesi), Kür memlehası1894/95 (AH 1312): muvakkat 2. kâtip, Kür memlehası, 500 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313): muvakkat 2. kâtip, Kür memlehası, 500 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313): muvakkat 2. kâtip (Görevin sona ermesi), Kür memlehası1896/97 (AH 1314): geçici kâtiplik memuru, Yirhan memlehası, 500 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315): geçici kâtiplik memuru, Yirhan memlehası, 500 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315): geçici kâtiplik memuru (Görevin sona ermesi), Yirhan memlehası1898/99 (AH 1316): geçici memur, Kakul memlehası, 500 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316): geçici memur (Görevin sona ermesi), Kakul memlehasıAH 1311AH 1316
Places and reading notes
  • Kür memlehası
  • Yirhan memlehası
  • Kakul memlehası

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 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.

Kemah
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Kür memlehası

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

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Kür memlehası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kür memlehası

    1. First work as recorded

    2. muvakkat 2. kâtip

      500 kuruş

  2. 2

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

    Kür memlehası

    AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kür memlehası

    1. muvakkat 2. kâtip

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. muvakkat 2. kâtip (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

    3. muvakkat 2. kâtip

      500 kuruş

    4. muvakkat 2. kâtip

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    5. muvakkat 2. kâtip (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  3. 3

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Yirhan memlehası

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yirhan memlehası

    1. geçici kâtiplik memuru

      500 kuruş

    2. geçici kâtiplik memuru

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    3. geçici kâtiplik memuru (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Kakul memlehası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kakul memlehası

    1. geçici memur

      500 kuruş

    2. geçici memur (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

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.

  • Birth · Kemah · Year not recorded

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
1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)500400140 to 1,50055.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)500400140 to 1,50055.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)500400140 to 1,42556.9%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)500400144 to 1,40055.8%1844

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02505001893/94AH 13111896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161893/94 (AH 1311) · 500 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 500 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 500 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 500 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314) · 500 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315) · 500 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · 500 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. Kür memlehası3
    1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
  2. Yirhan memlehası2
    1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
  3. Kakul memlehası1
    1898/99 (AH 1316)

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. Kür memlehası500
  2. Yirhan memlehası500
  3. Kakul memlehası500

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. 1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
  2. 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
  3. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

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.

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kemah [source]
Father’s occupation
Keçeci (esnaf) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d.122/78 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Kür memlehası [source]
First-salary field
500 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
1893/94 (AH 1311) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 66, 67

    77 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.122/78.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d.122/78.

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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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 11 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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