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Muhyiddin Bey

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Bursa · Dated entries 1864 to 1902 (AH 1281 to 1319)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 110/4; 5-6

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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Bursa

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.

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

  1. 1

    1848/49 (AH 1265)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Bursa tahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bursa mektubî kalemi mübeyyizliği

      312 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Bursa mektubî kalemi mübeyyizliği (maaş zammı: 50 )

      Calculated age 20

  4. 4

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. kalem-i mezkûr müdirliğimüsevvidliği (maaş zammı: 50 guruş)

      Calculated age 22

    2. birinci hukuk kalemi

      71 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 15 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Fatih mahkemesi kâtib-i sânîliği

      400 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Beyoğlu birinci hukuk dai'resi zabıt kitâbeti

      675 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 25 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Beyoğlu birinci hukuk dai'leri zabt kitâbeti

      675 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Beyoğlu birinci hukuk dai'leri zabt kitâbeti

      625 kuruşCalculated age 42

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 6 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Beyoğlu birinci hukuk dai'leri zabt kitâbeti (maaş zammı: 105 )

      Calculated age 44

    2. Beyoğlu Bidâyet mahkemesi icrâda'iresi baş muavinliği

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 49

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Beyoğlu Bidâyet mahkemesi ikinci hukuk da'iresi zabt kitâbeti

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 54

    2. İstifa

      Calculated age 54

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
1868/69 (AH 1285)312475150 to 3,00034.9%505
1870/71 (AH 1287)550400150 to 2,00063.4%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)71420.5125 to 2,3754.2%712
1873/74 (AH 1290)500405130 to 2,20055.9%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)500450150 to 1,80055.4%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)500450150 to 2,00054.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)500420150 to 2,00055.0%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)500450150 to 1,80054.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)500450150 to 2,00054.4%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)480400150 to 2,00055.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)598400180 to 1,80065.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)500400160 to 1,50061.0%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)500400150 to 1,50060.9%1489
1886/87 (AH 1304)675400150 to 1,50072.2%1725
1889/90 (AH 1307)675400130 to 1,50073.8%1874
1892/93 (AH 1310)850400135 to 1,50079.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,500400140 to 1,40090.3%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,500400140 to 1,50089.7%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,500400140 to 1,50089.0%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,500450150 to 1,57588.6%2119
1901/02 (AH 1319)1,350400150 to 1,52087.6%1666

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. 1864 to 1869 (AH 1281 to 1285)

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. 1879 to 1887 (AH 1297 to 1304)
  2. 1873 to 1878 (AH 1290 to 1295)
  3. 1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  4. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1295 to 1297)
  5. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  6. 1901/02 (AH 1319)

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 [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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 321,322,323,324

    110/4; 5-6

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 · 27 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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