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Mehmed Sırrı Efendi

Born 1835/36 (AH 1251) · Kizilhisar · Dated entries 1860 to 1904 (AH 1277 to 1321)

Languages Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/215

The career, year by year

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

Follow 18 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.

1KizilhisarPreveza (Preveze)Arta (Narda)Izmir (İzmir)KırklareliEdirneDiyarbakırErzurumAydın
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 18 · Kizilhisar

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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

    1835/36 (AH 1251)

    Kizilhisar

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Place not recorded / Preveza (Preveze)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Meclis-i Muhasebe-i Maliye Mazbata Odası memuru

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Preveza (Preveze)

      Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 26

  3. 3

    1861/62 (AH 1278) · 2 recorded years

    Preveza (Preveze)

    AH entries: 1278, 1279. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Preveza (Preveze) / Radviz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Radviz

    1. Preveza (Preveze)

      Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Radviz

      Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Radviz / Delonya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Radviz; Delonya

    1. Radviz

      Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Delonya

      Kaza Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

  6. 6

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Delonya

    Not yet located on the map: Delonya

    1. Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 33

  7. 7

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Delonya / Ergeri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Delonya; Ergeri

    1. Delonya

      Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ergeri

      Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 34

  8. 8

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Arta (Narda)

    1. Kaymakam

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 36

  9. 9

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Arta (Narda) / Gulus

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gulus

    1. Arta (Narda)

      Kaymakam

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gulus

      Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 37

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Place not recorded / Izmir (İzmir)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Şehremaneti Tahsilat müdürü

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

    2. Izmir (İzmir)

      Meclis-i Temyiz ikinci reisi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Kırklareli

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi reisi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 45

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi reisi

      2,180 kuruşCalculated age 45

  12. 12

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Kırklareli / Edirne

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kırklareli

      Bidayet Mahkemesi reisi

      2,180 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Edirne

      İstinaf Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 46

  13. 13

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Edirne

    1. İstinaf Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

  14. 14

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Edirne / Diyarbakır / Erzurum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Edirne

      İstinaf Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erzurum

      Adliye Müfettişi

      7,000 kuruşCalculated age 48

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  15. 15

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Suriye

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye

    1. Adliye Müfettişi

      Calculated age 51

  16. 16

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Cezayir Bahr-i Sefid

    Not yet located on the map: Cezayir Bahr-i Sefid

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi birinci reisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 53

  17. 17

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

    Edirne

    AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Adliye müdürü ve İstinaf Mahkemesi birinci reisi

      4,300 kuruşCalculated age 62

    2. Adliye müdürü ve İstinaf Mahkemesi birinci reisi

      3,870 kuruşCalculated age 63

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  18. 18

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Aydın

    1. Adliye Müfettişi

      7,000 kuruşCalculated age 70

2 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.

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

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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.

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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
1860/61 (AH 1277)2,000500150 to 3,00083.5%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)2,000500150 to 3,00081.9%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)2,000400140 to 3,00083.7%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)2,750475125 to 3,00087.5%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)2,000400125 to 3,00084.5%253
1867/68 (AH 1284)2,500458150 to 2,50088.7%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)2,500475150 to 3,00088.3%505
1870/71 (AH 1287)4,000400150 to 2,00095.1%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)4,000420.5125 to 2,37593.7%712
1874/75 (AH 1291)2,000450150 to 1,80090.6%882
1878/79 (AH 1296)4,000400150 to 2,00095.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)3,500400180 to 1,80095.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)3,500400160 to 1,50096.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)7,000400150 to 1,50098.3%1489
1886/87 (AH 1304)3,000400150 to 1,50095.8%1725
1895/96 (AH 1313)4,300400140 to 1,50097.3%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)4,300450150 to 1,57597.7%2119
1903/04 (AH 1321)7,000405150 to 1,45099.1%1578

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. 1879 to 1897 (AH 1297 to 1314)
  2. 1860 to 1864 (AH 1277 to 1280)
  3. Delonya3
    1864 to 1869 (AH 1281 to 1285)
  4. 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. Radviz2
    1863 to 1865 (AH 1280 to 1281)

The six most recorded places. 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. Edirne3,500 to 4,300
  2. Delonya2,000 to 2,500
  3. Kırklareli2,180 to 4,000
  4. Radviz2,000 to 2,750

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1860 to 1865 (AH 1277 to 1281)
  2. 1867 to 1872 (AH 1284 to 1288)
  3. 1881 to 1904 (AH 1299 to 1321)
  4. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  5. 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  6. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)

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; Arabî icazetnamesi; Mülkiye şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [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. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Gaziantepli memurlar

    EDA CEREN ERKABALCI · 2019 · Pages 115, 116

    BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/215; 247 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/215

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 19 dated AH years

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