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Mehmet Sabri Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Silistra (Silistre) · Dated entries 1876 to 1899 (AH 1293 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67

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.

1Silistra (Silistre)Rumkale
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Silistra (Silistre)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Silistra (Silistre)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Menafi-i umumiye sandığı vekili

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Silistra (Silistre)

    1. Menafi-i umumiye sandığı vekili

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  3. 3

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Silistra (Silistre) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Silistra (Silistre)

      Menafi-i umumiye sandığı vekili

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 2 recorded years

    Raniye

    AH entries: 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Raniye

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruş

    2. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Raniye / Suruç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Raniye; Suruç

    1. Raniye

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Suruç

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Suruç

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suruç

    1. Kaymakam

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Suruç / Rumkale

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suruç

    1. Suruç

      Kaymakam

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rumkale

      Kaymakam

      1,125 kuruş

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
1876/77 (AH 1293)400420150 to 2,00043.3%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)400450150 to 1,80043.0%1160
1878 (AH 1295)400450150 to 2,00042.7%1196
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,250400140 to 1,40087.3%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,250400140 to 1,50086.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,250400140 to 1,50085.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,125450150 to 1,57583.2%2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)1,125400144 to 1,40086.4%1844

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. Suruç4
    1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
  2. Raniye3
    1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
  3. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1295)
  4. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

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. Suruç1,125 to 1,250
  2. Raniye1,250
  3. Rumkale1,125

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. 1893 to 1899 (AH 1311 to 1316)
  2. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1295)
  3. 1878 to 1892 (AH 1295 to 1309)

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; Medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • 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 defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları

    KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 41, 42

    BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67; 131 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67.; 132 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67.; 133 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67.; BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 42/67

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 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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