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Ömer Yümni Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1861 to 1881 (AH 1278 to 1298)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

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.

1Shkodër (İşkodra)Durrës (Dıraç)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Tapu Başkitabeti Refik-i Sanisi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 18

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1862/63 (AH 1279) · 19 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tapu Başkitabeti Refik-i Sanisi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi Başkâtibi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    All 29 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Shkodër (İşkodra) / Durrës (Dıraç)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi Başkâtibi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Durrës (Dıraç)

      Sancak Tahrirat Müdürü

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 38

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
1861/62 (AH 1278)150500150 to 3,0009.4%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)150400140 to 3,00010.2%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)150475125 to 3,00011.3%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)150400125 to 3,00011.1%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)250400150 to 2,00022.7%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)250400146 to 2,00023.9%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)330458150 to 2,50036.4%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)500475150 to 3,00052.6%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)500400150 to 2,25055.1%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)710400150 to 2,00070.2%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)710420.5125 to 2,37568.3%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)710450140 to 2,35067.6%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)710405130 to 2,20067.2%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)710450150 to 1,80069.1%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)710450150 to 2,00068.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,000420150 to 2,00077.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,000450150 to 1,80077.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)1,000450150 to 2,00078.9%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,000400150 to 2,00076.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)600400180 to 1,80065.7%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)1,250400160 to 1,50086.5%1448

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. 1861 to 1881 (AH 1278 to 1298)
  2. 1880/81 (AH 1298)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1870 to 1877 (AH 1287 to 1293)
  2. 1861 to 1866 (AH 1278 to 1282)
  3. 1876 to 1879 (AH 1293 to 1296)
  4. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)
  5. 1865 to 1868 (AH 1282 to 1284)
  6. 1869 to 1871 (AH 1286 to 1287)

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 şehâdetnâmesi [1]

Schooling İşkodra Rüşdiye Mektebi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 285, 286

Read the original source accounts · 34 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 · 21 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 33 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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