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Mehmed Ali Efendi

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Antalya · Dated entries 1874 to 1889 (AH 1291 to 1306)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH. SAĠD. 21/337; BOA. DH. SAĠD. 23/439

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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Antalya

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

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Antalya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Antalya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Rüsûmât Müdürlüğü Dairesi (görev belirtilmemiş)

      190 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 4 recorded years

    Antalya

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Antalya Rüsûmat Müdürlüğü iskele kâtibi

      190 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûmât Müdürlüğü üçüncü kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Antalya / Teke / Finike

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke; Finike

    1. Antalya

      Antalya Rüsûmat Müdürlüğü üçüncü kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Finike

      Rüsûmât İdaresi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 5 recorded years

    Teke / Finike

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke; Finike

    1. Teke

      Teke Rüsûmat kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Finike

      Rüsûmât İdaresi kâtibi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Teke / Kalkan / Finike

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke; Kalkan; Finike

    1. Teke

      Teke Rüsûmat kâtibi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kalkan

      Rüsumat Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 3 recorded years

    Kalkan

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kalkan

    1. Kalkan Rüsûmat İdaresi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kalkan Rüsûmat İdaresi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Kalkan / İlyaki

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kalkan; İlyaki

    1. Kalkan

      Kalkan Rüsûmat İdaresi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. İlyaki

      İlyaki rüsûmat memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 40

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
1874/75 (AH 1291)190450150 to 1,80013.1%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)300450150 to 2,00028.5%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)300450150 to 1,80029.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)300450150 to 2,00029.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)400400150 to 2,00044.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)400400180 to 1,80044.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)320400160 to 1,50038.1%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)320400150 to 1,50038.8%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)350400150 to 1,40041.7%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)350400150 to 1,40041.1%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)500400150 to 1,50059.8%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)500400150 to 1,50058.1%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)500400150 to 1,50057.3%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)500400150 to 1,50054.5%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797

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. Finike7
    1878 to 1885 (AH 1296 to 1302)
  2. Teke7
    1878 to 1885 (AH 1296 to 1302)
  3. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  4. Kalkan5
    1884 to 1889 (AH 1302 to 1306)
  5. İlyaki1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)

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. Finike320 to 400
  2. Teke320 to 400
  3. Antalya190 to 300
  4. Kalkan500
  5. İlyaki400

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. 1878 to 1885 (AH 1296 to 1302)
  2. 1878 to 1885 (AH 1296 to 1302)
  3. 1875 to 1879 (AH 1292 to 1296)
  4. 1884 to 1889 (AH 1302 to 1306)
  5. 1876 to 1879 (AH 1293 to 1296)
  6. 1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)

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 Antalya Sıbyan Mektebi; Hacı Musa Efendi Medresesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. 1879-1909 tarihli Sicil-i Ahval kayıtlarına göre Antalya doğumlu memurlar

    OZAN CAN AKPINAR · 2017 · Pages 201

    900 BOA. DH. SAĠD. 21/337.; BOA. DH. SAĠD. 21/337.

  2. 1879-1909 tarihli Sicil-i Ahval kayıtlarına göre Antalya doğumlu memurlar

    OZAN CAN AKPINAR · 2017 · Pages 201, 202

    901 BOA. DH. SAĠD. 23/439.

Read the original source accounts · 45 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 · 16 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 45 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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