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Mehmed Şükrü Efendi

Born 1857/58 (AH 1274) · Diyarbakır · Dated entries 1878 to 1910 (AH 1296 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

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Life and career

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1DiyarbakırBitlisAydınBaghdad (Bağdat)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Diyarbakır

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Diyarbakır

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Zor Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi / Zor Sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi; Zor Sancağı

    1. Zor Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Zor Sancağı

      Muhasebe kalemi katibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 9 recorded years

    Zor Sancağı

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor Sancağı

    1. Muhasebe kalemi katibi

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhasebe kalemi başkatibi (Azil)

      Calculated age 31

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years

    Ergani Madeni

    AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ergani Madeni

    1. Maden muhasebecisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Maden muhasebecisi (Azil)

      Calculated age 34

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 4 recorded years

    Kütahya Sancağı

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kütahya Sancağı

    1. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Sancak muhasebecisi (Azil)

      Calculated age 40

      Recorded service ending

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 4 recorded years

    Bitlis

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet defterdarı

      3,600 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Vilayet defterdarı (Azil)

      Calculated age 44

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Kosova

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova

    1. Vilayet defterdarı

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 45

  8. 8

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Kosova / Aydın

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova

    1. Kosova

      Vilayet defterdarı

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aydın

      Tahsil-i bekaya memuru

      5,000 kuruşCalculated age 46

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tekaüt

      1,500 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 48

  10. 10

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    1. Vilayet defterdarı

      5,400 kuruşCalculated age 49

  11. 11

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tekaüt

      1,350 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 53

    2. Tekaüt

      1,800 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 53

3 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
1878/79 (AH 1296)200400150 to 2,00012.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)250400180 to 1,80019.2%1534
1881/82 (AH 1299)400400150 to 1,50046.6%1489
1883/84 (AH 1301)600400150 to 1,40068.1%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)700400150 to 1,50074.5%1748
1886/87 (AH 1304)850400150 to 1,50078.6%1725
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,500400130 to 1,50089.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,500400125 to 1,50088.6%1896
1893/94 (AH 1311)2,000400140 to 1,40093.5%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)2,000400140 to 1,50093.1%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)2,000400140 to 1,50092.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)2,000450150 to 1,57592.1%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)3,600400140 to 1,42597.6%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)3,600400144 to 1,40097.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)3,600400140 to 1,44097.8%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)3,600400140 to 1,50097.3%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)4,500400150 to 1,52097.5%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)5,000400150 to 1,50098.4%1627
1904/05 (AH 1322)1,500400135 to 1,50089.6%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)5,400430125 to 1,50098.4%1423
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,800600200 to 2,00085.6%1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Zor Sancağı10
    1878 to 1888 (AH 1296 to 1305)
  2. 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318)
  3. Kütahya Sancağı4
    1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  4. Ergani Madeni2
    1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  5. Kosova2
    1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)
  6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

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. Zor Sancağı30 to 850
  2. Bitlis3,600
  3. Kütahya Sancağı2,000
  4. Ergani Madeni1,500
  5. Kosova4,500
  6. Aydın5,000

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. 1878 to 1885 (AH 1296 to 1302)
  2. 1897 to 1906 (AH 1315 to 1323)
  3. 1884 to 1888 (AH 1302 to 1305)
  4. 1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  5. 1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Persian · Tekellüm [source]
  • 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 defterlerinde Diyarbekirli yöneticiler

    İSHAK ŞİMŞEK · 2013 · Pages 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191

Read the original source accounts · 44 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 · 25 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 41 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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