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MEHMED ALĠ EFENDĠ

Born 1862/63 (AH 1279) · Antalya · Dated entries 1876 to 1911 (AH 1293 to 1329)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00182 – 00189/189

The career, year by year

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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.

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

Stage 1 of 12 · Antalya

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.

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

  1. 1

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Antalya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Antalya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Tahrirat kalemi ikinci mübeyyizi

      95 kuruşCalculated age 14

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 7 recorded years

    Antalya

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kalemi ikinci mübeyyizi

      95 kuruşCalculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsum-ı sitte başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Antalya / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Antalya

      Rüsum-ı sitte başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Vilayet orman sermüfettişliği başkâtip vekili

      260 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Place not recorded / Teke

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Teke

    1. Place not recorded

      Vilayet orman sermüfettişliği başkâtip vekili

      260 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Teke

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza mazbata kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 3 recorded years

    Teke

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza mazbata kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza mazbata kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 26

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Antalya

    1. Tahrirat müdür vekili

      65 kuruşCalculated age 30

  8. 8

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 5 recorded years

    Antalya

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sancak sandık emini

      450 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. Eytam müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 40

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Elmalı

    1. Ağnam ve hayvanat-ı ehliye müfettişi

      Calculated age 43

  10. 10

    1905/06 (AH 1323) · 3 recorded years

    İstanos

    AH entries: 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanos

    1. Duhan reji serbayisi

      Calculated age 44

    2. Duhan reji serbayisi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 46

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1908/09 (AH 1326) · 3 recorded years

    Antalya

    AH entries: 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Belediye başkâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. Belediye başkâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 49

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Antalya / Teke

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. Antalya

      Belediye başkâtibi

      450 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

    2. Teke

      Tahrirat kalemi sermüsevvidi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 50

4 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
1876/77 (AH 1293)95420150 to 2,0004.4%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)190450150 to 1,80013.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)190450150 to 2,00013.5%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
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)350400150 to 1,40041.1%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)300400150 to 1,50027.9%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1762
1891/92 (AH 1309)65400140 to 1,6003.2%1927
1897/98 (AH 1315)450400140 to 1,42553.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)450400144 to 1,40052.0%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)450400140 to 1,44052.4%1821
1906/07 (AH 1324)160450150 to 1,52514.1%1371
1908/09 (AH 1326)400400150 to 2,00042.9%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)450600200 to 2,00039.9%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)450500200 to 2,00043.6%732
1911 (AH 1329)600600250 to 2,50046.6%402

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. 1876 to 1911 (AH 1293 to 1329)
  2. Teke5
    1884 to 1911 (AH 1302 to 1329)
  3. İstanos3
    1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)
  4. 1904/05 (AH 1322)

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. Antalya65 to 450
  2. Teke300 to 600
  3. İstanos160

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. 1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
  2. 1908 to 1911 (AH 1326 to 1329)
  3. 1884 to 1888 (AH 1302 to 1305)
  4. 1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)
  5. 1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)
  6. 1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)

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; A‘lâ dereceli rüşdiye şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Antalya sıbyan mektebi; Antalya rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Antalyalı memurlar (1879-1909)

    MEHMET FATİH DEMİRDAŞ · 2019 · Pages 226, 227, 228

    201 BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00182 – 00189/189

Read the original source accounts · 52 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 · 27 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 48 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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