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Mehmet Münip Efendi

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Sivas · Dated entries 1867 to 1888 (AH 1284 to 1305)

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.

1SivasŞebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)TokatNiksar
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 12 · Sivas

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.

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

  1. 1

    1848/49 (AH 1265)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Sivas / Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    1. Sivas

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

      muhasebe kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 19

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 3 recorded years

    Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    1. muhasebe kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. muhasebe kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi / Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    1. Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

      muhasebe kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

      seyyar fırka mukayyidi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5
    1. seyyar fırka mukayyidi

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 25

  7. 7

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 3 recorded years

    Hamantı nahiyesi, Aziziye kazası

    AH entries: 1291, 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Hamantı nahiyesi, Aziziye kazası

    1. nahiye vergi kâtibi

      235 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. nahiye vergi kâtibi

      Calculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 2 recorded years

    Kazabad nahiyesi

    AH entries: 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kazabad nahiyesi

    1. nahiye vergi kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. nahiye vergi kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 30

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Komutan(?) nahiyesi, Tokat

    Not yet located on the map: Komutan(?) nahiyesi, Tokat

    1. nahiye vergi kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

  10. 10

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Tokat

    1. tahrir kalemi yevmiye tahsilat kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 32

  11. 11

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Niksar

    1. kaza vergi kâtibi

      Calculated age 33

  12. 12

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Niksar

    1. kaza vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 40

2 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
1871/72 (AH 1288)300420.5125 to 2,37530.4%712
1874/75 (AH 1291)235450150 to 1,80020.7%882
1877/78 (AH 1294)250450150 to 1,80023.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)250450150 to 2,00023.4%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)250400150 to 2,00021.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)250400180 to 1,80019.2%1534
1887/88 (AH 1305)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1762

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. Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi5
    1867 to 1872 (AH 1284 to 1288)
  2. Hamantı nahiyesi, Aziziye kazası3
    1874 to 1877 (AH 1291 to 1293)
  3. Kazabad nahiyesi2
    1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
  4. 1880 to 1888 (AH 1298 to 1305)
  5. 1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289)
  6. Komutan(?) nahiyesi, Tokat1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)

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. Hamantı nahiyesi, Aziziye kazası235
  2. Kazabad nahiyesi250
  3. Komutan(?) nahiyesi, Tokat250

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. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  2. 1867 to 1872 (AH 1284 to 1288)
  3. 1880 to 1888 (AH 1298 to 1305)
  4. 1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289)
  5. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
  6. 1879/80 (AH 1297)

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 Sivas sıbyan mektebi; Sivas rüştiyesi (diploma) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 266, 267

Read the original source accounts · 21 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 · 16 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 19 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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