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Mehmet Şükrü Efendi

Born 1838/39 (AH 1254) · Bandırma · Dated entries 1868 to 1908 (AH 1285 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 12 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.

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

Stage 1 of 12 · Bandırma

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.

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

  1. 1

    1838/39 (AH 1254)

    Bandırma

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Gerdos

    Not yet located on the map: Gerdos

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 28

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Bozhöyük

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bozhöyük

    1. Kaymakam

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Pınarhisar

    1. Ağnam rüsumu memuru

      Calculated age 33

  5. 5

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Mesuli

    Not yet located on the map: Mesuli

    1. Kaymakam

      1,120 kuruşCalculated age 35

  6. 6

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Mesuli / Pınarhisar / Edirne vilayeti çevresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mesuli; Edirne vilayeti çevresi

    1. Mesuli

      Kaymakam

      1,120 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mesuli

      Kaymakam (İstifa)

      Calculated age 36

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 2 recorded years

    Edirne

    AH entries: 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aşar Emaneti müdürü

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Aşar Emaneti başkâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 39

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 2 recorded years

    Karinabat

    AH entries: 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Karinabat

    1. Kaymakam

      1,350 kuruşCalculated age 40

    2. Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 41

  9. 9

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Bandırma

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Belediye reisi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Belediye reisi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 42

  10. 10

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 7 recorded years

    Bandırma

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Belediye reisi

      440 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Belediye reisi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 50

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 9 recorded years

    Pogomil

    AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Pogomil

    1. Nahiye Müdürü

      750 kuruşCalculated age 59

    2. Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)

      Calculated age 67

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Vefat

      Calculated age 71

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

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)1,400475150 to 3,00080.4%505
1872/73 (AH 1289)1,120450140 to 2,35079.2%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,120405130 to 2,20080.1%805
1875/76 (AH 1292)1,500450150 to 2,00085.7%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,200420150 to 2,00082.4%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,350450150 to 1,80085.5%1160
1878/79 (AH 1296)350400150 to 2,00040.0%1328
1880/81 (AH 1298)440400160 to 1,50054.9%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)440400150 to 1,50055.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)440400150 to 1,40054.7%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)440400150 to 1,40055.3%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)440400150 to 1,50054.4%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)440400150 to 1,50053.3%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)440400150 to 1,50053.2%1725
1895/96 (AH 1313)750400140 to 1,50074.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)750450150 to 1,57573.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)675400140 to 1,42574.3%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)675400144 to 1,40072.9%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)675400140 to 1,44072.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)675400140 to 1,50072.7%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)675400150 to 1,52071.1%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)675400150 to 1,50072.1%1627

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. Pogomil9
    1895 to 1904 (AH 1313 to 1321)
  2. 1878 to 1887 (AH 1296 to 1304)
  3. 1875 to 1877 (AH 1292 to 1293)
  4. Mesuli2
    1872 to 1874 (AH 1289 to 1290)
  5. 1870 to 1874 (AH 1287 to 1290)
  6. Bozhöyük1
    1868/69 (AH 1285)

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. Pogomil675 to 750
  2. Bandırma200 to 440
  3. Edirne1,200 to 1,500
  4. Mesuli1,120
  5. Bozhöyük1,400
  6. Karinabat1,350

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 1887 (AH 1296 to 1304)
  2. 1895 to 1903 (AH 1313 to 1320)
  3. 1868 to 1878 (AH 1285 to 1294)
  4. 1870 to 1874 (AH 1287 to 1290)
  5. 1876/77 (AH 1293)
  6. 1875/76 (AH 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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Atik Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Bandırma Sıbyan Mektebi; Atik Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [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 Bandırmalı devlet adamları

    ŞERİFE AÇIKGÖZ · 2020 · Pages 118, 119, 120, 121

Read the original source accounts · 38 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 · 26 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 35 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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