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Salih Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Bosna · Dated entries 1881 to 1912 (AH 1299 to 1330)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 19/327

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

1Skopje (Üsküp)Mitrovica (Mitroviça)Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)Sjenica (Seniçe)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Skopje (Üsküp)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Skopje (Üsküp)

    1. Âşâr üçüncü kâtibi

      200 kuruş

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Skopje (Üsküp) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Skopje (Üsküp)

      Âşâr üçüncü kâtibi

      200 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Âşâr nezareti evrak mukayyidi

      125 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

      Mitrovica (Mitroviça)

      AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

      Within-year entry order unresolved

        All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1888/89 (AH 1306) · 21 recorded years

        Piriştine

        AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

        Within-year entry order unresolved

        Not yet located on the map: Piriştine

          All 28 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1911/12 (AH 1330)

          Vushtrri (Vulçıtrın)

          1. Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

        7 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 7 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
        1881/82 (AH 1299)200400150 to 1,50013.4%1489
        1882/83 (AH 1300)200400150 to 1,40012.4%1655
        1883/84 (AH 1301)300400150 to 1,40028.3%1720
        1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
        1885/86 (AH 1303)450400150 to 1,50053.6%1787
        1886/87 (AH 1304)270400150 to 1,50026.7%1725
        1887/88 (AH 1305)270400150 to 1,50026.7%1762
        1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797
        1889/90 (AH 1307)500400130 to 1,50056.1%1874
        1890/91 (AH 1308)500400125 to 1,50056.0%1896
        1891/92 (AH 1309)135400140 to 1,6009.5%1927
        1892/93 (AH 1310)135400135 to 1,50010.0%1935
        1893/94 (AH 1311)135400140 to 1,4009.4%1929
        1894/95 (AH 1312)135400140 to 1,5009.5%2004
        1895/96 (AH 1313)135400140 to 1,5009.1%1981
        1896/97 (AH 1314)135450150 to 1,5757.8%2119
        1897/98 (AH 1315)135400140 to 1,4259.1%1891
        1898/99 (AH 1316)190400144 to 1,40014.2%1844
        1899/1900 (AH 1317)190400140 to 1,44015.1%1821
        1900/01 (AH 1318)330400140 to 1,50039.3%1761
        1901/02 (AH 1319)330400150 to 1,52038.0%1666
        1902/03 (AH 1320)330400150 to 1,50039.5%1627
        1903/04 (AH 1321)400405150 to 1,45043.1%1578
        1904/05 (AH 1322)400400135 to 1,50042.2%1493
        1905/06 (AH 1323)400430125 to 1,50041.3%1423
        1906/07 (AH 1324)550450150 to 1,52561.7%1371
        1907/08 (AH 1325)550460135 to 1,61559.7%1290
        1908/09 (AH 1326)750400150 to 2,00069.0%1232

        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. Piriştine21
          1888 to 1909 (AH 1306 to 1326)
        2. 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)
        3. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)

        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. Piriştine135 to 750

        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. 1891 to 1908 (AH 1309 to 1325)
        2. 1886 to 1891 (AH 1304 to 1308)
        3. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
        4. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
        5. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
        6. 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)

        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; Bosna Rüşdiyesi [source]

        Language skills and historical terms

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

        • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

        Honours and other personal details

        Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
        1 (recorded code) [source]
        All personal fields and their sources

        Sources and evidence

        1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

          MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 123, 124, 125

          160 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 19/327.

        Read the original source accounts · 47 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 · 29 dated AH years

        Annual salary study and register readings

        The separate annual salary reference account has 42 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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