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Mehmed Said Efendi

Born 1887/88 (AH 1305) · Malatya · Dated entries 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, French, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD.00176.00138, s. 73

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1908/09 (AH 1326): Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü, Haleb Vilayeti, 500 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü, Haleb Vilayeti, 500 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü, Haleb Vilayeti, 600 kuruşAH 1326AH 1327
Places and reading notes
  • Haleb Vilayeti

2 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 3 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.

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

Stage 1 of 3 · Malatya

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

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Haleb Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Vilayeti

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Haleb Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Vilayeti

    1. Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Umur-ı Nafia Kondoktörü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 22

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.

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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
1908/09 (AH 1326)500400150 to 2,00052.4%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)600600200 to 2,00049.8%1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
03006001908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271908/09 (AH 1326) · 500 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 500 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 600 kuruş

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. Haleb Vilayeti2
    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

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. Haleb Vilayeti500 to 600

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. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; diploma [1]

Schooling Malatya Mekteb-i İdadi-yi Mülkisi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Malatya [source]
Birth year
1887/88 (AH 1305) [source]
Father’s occupation
Tüccar [source]
Archive references
DH. SAİD.00176.00138, s. 73 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
bilir [source]
French
bilir [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]diploma [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Malatya Mekteb-i İdadi-yi Mülkisi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
21 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Haleb Vilayeti [source]
First-salary field
500 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1908/09 (AH 1326) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 313, 314

    DH. SAİD.00176.00138, s. 73

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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 · 2 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 3 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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How to read the records

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