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MUHAMMET MUHLİSİ EFENDİ

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1876 to 1898 (AH 1293 to 1315)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival references DH_SAİD,00058_00166; DH_SAİD 00058_00166

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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)Mosul (Musul)Al-Sadiyah (Kızılrabat)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Kerkük telgrafhanesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük telgrafhanesi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 27

    2. telgraf mülazımı

      Calculated age 27

  3. 3

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 4 recorded years

    Kerkük telgrafhanesi

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük telgrafhanesi

    1. telgraf mülazımı

      Calculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. telgraf mülazımı

      Calculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Kerkük telgrafhanesi / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük telgrafhanesi

    1. Kerkük telgrafhanesi

      telgraf mülazımı

      Calculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      merkez muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 2 recorded years

    Kirkuk (Kerkük) / Mosul (Musul)

    AH entries: 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      merkez muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      merkez muhabere memuru

      285 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük) / Çemçamal

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Çemçamal

    1. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      merkez muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çemçamal

      merkez muhabere memuru

      570 kuruşCalculated age 35

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 5 recorded years

    Al-Sadiyah (Kızılrabat)

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

    1. telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Al-Sadiyah (Kızılrabat) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Al-Sadiyah (Kızılrabat)

      telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 49

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Vefat

      Calculated age 49

1 entry 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
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)285400150 to 1,40027.3%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)570400150 to 1,40067.6%1720
1892/93 (AH 1310)500400135 to 1,50056.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)500400140 to 1,50055.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)500400140 to 1,50055.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)500400140 to 1,42556.9%1891

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. 1892 to 1898 (AH 1310 to 1315)
  2. Kerkük telgrafhanesi6
    1876 to 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298)
  3. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  4. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  5. Çemçamal1
    1883/84 (AH 1301)

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. Çemçamal570

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. 1876 to 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298)
  2. 1892 to 1898 (AH 1310 to 1315)
  3. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)

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]

Qualification mukaddimat-ı ulum-ı diniyye [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 97, 98

    103 DH_SAİD,00058_00166; DH_SAİD 00058_00166

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 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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