Mehmet Said Efendi

Born 1864/65 (AH 1281) · Bosna · Dated entries 1879 to 1906 (AH 1297 to 1323)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 65/319; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 65/319; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 65/319, s.319

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmet Said Efendi was born in Bosna in 1864/65 (AH 1281). The father’s occupation was Asakir-i Şahane kolağası. Schooling included Mahallî sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Bitola (Manastır) in 1879/80 (AH 1297). Dated career entries span 1879/80 (AH 1297) to 1905/06 (AH 1323) across 27 AH years, beginning with Telgrafhane mülazımı. More than one post or place appears in 8 of those years. Place names include Bitola (Manastır), Elbasan (İlbasan), Tirana (Tiran) and Ohrid (Ohri) and 4 other named places.^{[2] [1]}

Monthly pay went from 285 kuruş in 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 500 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323); the highest recorded monthly rate is 500 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323).^{[1] [2]}

Personal record

Birth: Bosna · 1864/65 (AH 1281)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Asakir-i Şahane kolağası^[source]
Education: Mahallî sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye^[source]
First work: 1879/80 (AH 1297) · Bitola (Manastır)^[source]
Age at first work: 16^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
Apprenticeship: 4^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.

Career in numbers

27
Dated AH years: 8
Career place names: 6
Entries without a resolved year: 23
Salary years: 285 → 500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 52.7%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1905/06 (AH 1323); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1905/06 (AH 1323).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 15 · Bosna

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Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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1864/65 (AH 1281)
Bosna
Not yet located on the map: Bosna
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Bitola (Manastır)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 16
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Telgrafhane mülazımı
  Calculated age 16
  Entry & evidence →[2]
3
1880/81 (AH 1298) · 3 recorded years
Bitola (Manastır)
AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.
1. Telgrafhane mülazımı
  Calculated age 17
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Telgrafhane mülazımı
  Calculated age 19
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1883/84 (AH 1301)
Elbasan (İlbasan) / Bitola (Manastır)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Elbasan (İlbasan)
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  285 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Elbasan (İlbasan)
  Muhabere Memuru
  285 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1884/85 (AH 1302)
Elbasan (İlbasan)
1. Muhabere Memuru
  285 kuruşCalculated age 21
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
6
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Elbasan (İlbasan) / Tirana (Tiran)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Elbasan (İlbasan)
  Muhabere Memuru
  285 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Tirana (Tiran)
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[2]
7
1886/87 (AH 1304) · 3 recorded years
Tirana (Tiran)
AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.
1. Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 23
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years
Tirana (Tiran) / Ohrid (Ohri)
AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Tirana (Tiran)
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Tirana (Tiran)
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1891/92 (AH 1309) · 3 recorded years
Tirana (Tiran)
AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.
1. Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Odri / Tirana (Tiran) / Ohri
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Odri; Ohri
1. Odri
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  395 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ohri
  Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru
  395 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1895/96 (AH 1313)
Odri / Tirana (Tiran) / Ohri / Berat
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Odri; Ohri; Berat
1. Odri
  Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
  395 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Berat
  Telgraf Merkezi muhabere memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
12
1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years
Berat
AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Berat
1. Telgraf Merkezi muhabere memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Telgraf Merkezi muhabere memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
13
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Berat / Elbasan (İlbasan)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Berat
1. Berat
  Telgraf Merkezi muhabere memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Elbasan (İlbasan)
  Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru
  290 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[2]
14
1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 6 recorded years
Elbasan (İlbasan)
AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.
1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru
  290 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru
  290 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
15
1905/06 (AH 1323)
Elbasan (İlbasan) / Mise
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Elbasan (İlbasan)
  Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru
  290 kuruşCalculated age 42
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[2]
2. Mise
  Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü
  500 kuruşCalculated age 42
  Entry & evidence →[2]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

5 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.

Telgrafhane mülazımı · Bitola (Manastır) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru · Tirana (Tiran) · Undated · 380 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru · Odri · Undated · 395 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Posta ve telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru · Elbasan (İlbasan) · Undated · 290 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Posta ve telgraf merkezi müdürü · Elbasan (İlbasan) · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1883/84 (AH 1301)	285	400	150 to 1,400	27.8%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	285	400	150 to 1,500	27.4%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	380	400	150 to 1,500	43.2%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	380	400	150 to 1,500	44.3%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	380	400	150 to 1,500	42.5%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	380	400	135 to 1,500	44.2%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	395	400	130 to 1,500	46.2%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	395	400	125 to 1,500	45.3%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	380	400	140 to 1,600	43.8%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	380	400	135 to 1,500	43.2%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	380	400	140 to 1,400	43.3%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	395	400	140 to 1,500	44.9%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	395	400	140 to 1,500	44.6%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	380	450	150 to 1,575	40.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	380	400	140 to 1,425	44.1%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	380	400	144 to 1,400	43.2%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	290	400	140 to 1,440	28.9%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	290	400	140 to 1,500	29.0%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	290	400	150 to 1,520	28.9%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	290	400	150 to 1,500	28.7%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	290	405	150 to 1,450	29.0%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	290	400	135 to 1,500	29.1%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	500	430	125 to 1,500	52.7%	1423

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Elbasan (İlbasan)11
1883 to 1906 (AH 1301 to 1323)
Tirana (Tiran)11
1885 to 1896 (AH 1303 to 1313)
Bitola (Manastır)5
1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
Berat4
1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
Odri2
1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
Ohri2
1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

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

Elbasan (İlbasan)285 to 290
Tirana (Tiran)380
Berat380
Odri395
Ohri395
Ohrid (Ohri)395

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

Muhabere Memuru12
1883 to 1895 (AH 1301 to 1312)
Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru10
1894 to 1906 (AH 1312 to 1323)
Telgrafhane mülazımı5
1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
Telgraf Merkezi muhabere memuru4
1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru3
1883 to 1896 (AH 1301 to 1313)
Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü1
1905/06 (AH 1323)

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

Tirana (Tiran)10 other officialsİDRİS EFENDİ 7 shared years; highest salary 240 kuruş
1879/80 (AH 1297)206 other officialsBeğos Efendi first entry in Feke; highest salary 45 kuruş
Muhabere Memuru104 other officialsYusuf Kemal Efendi 12 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Mahallî sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · okuryazar^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar
MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 128, 129
BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 65/319.
II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları
DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 237, 238
BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 65/319; 325 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 65/319, s.319.

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