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Mehmed Atıf Efendi

Born 1846/47 (AH 1263) · Malatya · Dated entries 1868 to 1903 (AH 1285 to 1320)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD.00010.00493, s. 981 - 982

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1MalatyaKâhtaKarsAkçadağAdıyaman (Hısnımansur)Akdağmadeni (Akdağ)YalvaçBoğazlıyanÜrgüp
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 19 · Malatya

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1846/47 (AH 1263)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Beyoğlu / Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Beyoğlu; Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı

    1. Beyoğlu

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı

      Dördüncü Sınıf Teftiş Memuru

      450 kuruşCalculated age 22

  3. 3

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı / Kâhta

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı

    1. Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı

      Dördüncü Sınıf Teftiş Memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

    2. Kâhta

      Teftis Memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 24

  4. 4

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Kâhta

    1. Teftiş Memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Kâhta

    1. Tahrirat Kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

  6. 6

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Kars

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Fırka-i Askeriye Tahrirat Kâtibi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Fırka-i Askeriye Tahrirat Kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Kâhta

    1. Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

  8. 8

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Kâhta / Tokad

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokad

    1. Kâhta

      Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tokad

      Kaymakam Vekili

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 33

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  9. 9

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Tokad

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokad

    1. Kaymakam Vekili

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam Vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 34

      Recorded service ending

  10. 10

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Akçadağ

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 35

  11. 11

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Adıyaman (Hısnımansur)

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 37

  12. 12

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Kâhta

    1. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 41

      Recorded service ending

  13. 13

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Keskin

    Not yet located on the map: Keskin

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 42

  14. 14

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Zir / Akdağmadeni (Akdağ)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zir

    1. Zir

      Kaymakam

      1,215 kuruşCalculated age 43

    2. Akdağmadeni (Akdağ)

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 43

  15. 15

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Keskin / Yalvaç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keskin

    1. Keskin

      Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. Yalvaç

      Kaymakam

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 47

  16. 16

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Yalvaç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 48

      Recorded service ending

  17. 17

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tekaüt

      393 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 51

  18. 18

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Boğazlıyan

    1. Kaymakam

      1,089.5 kuruşCalculated age 52

  19. 19

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Ürgüp

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 57

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

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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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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
1868/69 (AH 1285)450475150 to 3,00048.6%505
1870/71 (AH 1287)250400150 to 2,00021.9%649
1873/74 (AH 1290)200405130 to 2,20018.4%805
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,500450150 to 1,80086.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)500450150 to 2,00054.4%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,250400150 to 2,00082.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)1,250400180 to 1,80084.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)1,250400160 to 1,50086.5%1448
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,250400150 to 1,40086.8%1655
1887/88 (AH 1305)1,250400150 to 1,50085.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)1,250400135 to 1,50085.2%1797
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,800400135 to 1,50092.1%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,800400140 to 1,40092.7%1929
1896/97 (AH 1314)393450150 to 1,57542.1%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)1,089.5400140 to 1,42586.2%1891

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1870 to 1879 (AH 1287 to 1296)
  2. Keskin2
    1887 to 1893 (AH 1305 to 1310)
  3. Tokad2
    1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  5. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  6. 1880/81 (AH 1298)

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. Kâhta200 to 500
  2. Keskin1,250
  3. Tokad1,250
  4. Yalvaç1,800

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. 1880 to 1903 (AH 1298 to 1320)
  2. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  3. 1878 to 1879 (AH 1295 to 1296)
  4. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  5. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
  6. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]

Qualification Arapça ve Fıkh-ı şerif okumuş [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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 Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 278, 279, 280, 281, 282

    DH. SAİD.00010.00493, s. 981 - 982

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 18 dated AH years

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