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Mehmed Muhlis Efendi

Born 1837/38 (AH 1253) · Taşköprü · Dated entries 1865 to 1889 (AH 1282 to 1306)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,146/47; BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,40/125

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 20 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.

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

Stage 1 of 20 · Taşköprü

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

    1837/38 (AH 1253)

    Taşköprü

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 29

    2. Askerlik

      Calculated age 29

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik

      Calculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Askerlik

      Calculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Place not recorded / Kastamonu vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Kastamonu vilayeti

    1. Place not recorded

      Askerlik

      Calculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kastamonu vilayeti

      Asker-i haytiye mensubu

      90 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Kastamonu vilayeti

    Not yet located on the map: Kastamonu vilayeti

    1. Asker-i haytiye mensubu

      90 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Kastamonu vilayeti / İskilip

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kastamonu vilayeti

    1. Kastamonu vilayeti

      Asker-i haytiye mensubu

      90 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. İskilip

      Meclis-i İdare kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    İskilip / Kastamonu vilayeti / Kastamonu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kastamonu vilayeti

    1. İskilip

      Meclis-i İdare kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kastamonu

      Merkez-i Mizan kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Kastamonu

    1. Merkez-i Mizan kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

  9. 9

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Kastamonu / Taşköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kastamonu

      Merkez-i Mizan kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taşköprü

      Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 38

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Taşköprü / Sinop

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Taşköprü

      Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sinop

      Tahrir-i Emlak Komisyonu başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Sinop

    1. Tahrir-i Emlak Komisyonu başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

  12. 12

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Sinop / Place not recorded / Taşköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sinop

      Tahrir-i Emlak Komisyonu başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taşköprü

      Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1878 (AH 1295) · 3 recorded years

    Taşköprü

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

    1. Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  14. 14

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Taşköprü / Place not recorded / Boyabat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Taşköprü

      Vukuat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Boyabat

      Arazi yoklama görevlisi

      Calculated age 45

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  15. 15

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    İnebolu yolu

    Not yet located on the map: İnebolu yolu

    1. İnebolu yolu tahkik memuru

      Calculated age 46

  16. 16

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    İskilip

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüsum-ı Sitte Müdürü

      360 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. Rüsum-ı Sitte Müdürü

      350 kuruşCalculated age 49

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  17. 17

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    İskilip / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. İskilip

      Rüsum-ı Sitte Müdürü

      350 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 50

  18. 18

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Araç

    1. Ağnam Tağdad-ı Hafiyye memuru

      Calculated age 51

  19. 19

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Taşköprü

    1. Ağnam kâtibi

      Calculated age 52

  20. 20

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    İskilip

    1. Sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 53

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
1869/70 (AH 1286)90400150 to 2,2505.3%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)90400150 to 2,0004.5%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)250420.5125 to 2,37521.7%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)300450140 to 2,35031.7%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)300405130 to 2,20032.6%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)300450150 to 1,80030.2%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)500450150 to 2,00054.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)500420150 to 2,00055.0%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)500450150 to 1,80054.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)300450150 to 2,00029.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1882/83 (AH 1300)360400150 to 1,40044.1%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)360400150 to 1,40043.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)350400150 to 1,50040.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)350400150 to 1,50040.1%1787
1888/89 (AH 1306)360400135 to 1,50043.1%1797

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. 1874 to 1888 (AH 1291 to 1305)
  2. 1871 to 1889 (AH 1288 to 1306)
  3. Kastamonu vilayeti4
    1869 to 1873 (AH 1286 to 1289)
  4. 1872 to 1875 (AH 1289 to 1291)
  5. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  6. 1886/87 (AH 1304)

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. İskilip250 to 360
  2. Kastamonu vilayeti90 to 250

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 1881 (AH 1291 to 1298)
  2. 1865 to 1870 (AH 1282 to 1286)
  3. 1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  4. 1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
  5. 1872 to 1875 (AH 1289 to 1291)
  6. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)

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]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Taşköprülü memurlar

    VİLDAN ŞAHİN · 2023 · Pages 127, 128, 129

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,146/47; BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,40/125

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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