Mehmed Cemil Efendi

Born 1852/53 (AH 1269) · Diyarbakır · Dated entries 1868 to 1908 (AH 1285 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

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The life

Mehmed Cemil Efendi was born in Diyarbakır in 1852/53 (AH 1269). Schooling included Mekatib-i Adiye. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Diyarbekir Mektubçu Kalemi in 1868/69 (AH 1285). Dated career entries span 1868/69 (AH 1285) to 1907/08 (AH 1325) across 21 AH years, from Diyarbakır to Prizren, beginning with Mektubçu kalemi mülazımı and ending with entries for Sancak tahrirat müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 3 of those years. Place names include Diyarbakır, Nusaybin/Cizre, Nusaybin and Mardin and 1 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 50 kuruş in 1871/72 (AH 1288) to 1,500 kuruş in 1907/08 (AH 1325); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,500 kuruş in 1907/08 (AH 1325).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Diyarbakır · 1852/53 (AH 1269)^[source]
Education: Mekatib-i Adiye^[source]
First work: 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Diyarbekir Mektubçu Kalemi^[source]
Age at first work: 16^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
Apprenticeship: 3^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.

Career in numbers

23
Dated AH years: 6
Career place names: 3
Entries without a resolved year: 11
Salary years: 50 → 1,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 87.6%
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. 1871/72 (AH 1288) to 1907/08 (AH 1325); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1907/08 (AH 1325)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1907/08 (AH 1325).

Life and career

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Follow 13 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.

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Stage 1 of 13 · Diyarbakır

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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.

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

1
1852/53 (AH 1269)
Diyarbakır
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1868/69 (AH 1285)
Diyarbekir Mektubçu Kalemi / Diyarbakır
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir Mektubçu Kalemi
1. Diyarbekir Mektubçu Kalemi
  First work as recorded
  Calculated age 16
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Diyarbakır
  Mektubçu kalemi mülazımı
  Calculated age 16
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1871/72 (AH 1288)
Diyarbakır
1. Mektubçu kalemi katibi
  50 kuruşCalculated age 19
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1874/75 (AH 1291)
Diyarbakır
1. Mektubçu kalemi katibi
  Calculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Diyarbakır
1. Postahane katibi
  300 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Diyarbakır
1. Aşar ve ağnam nezareti tahrirat mübeyyizi
  240 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1881/82 (AH 1299) · 5 recorded years
Diyarbakır
AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Merkez mutasarrıflığı aşar başkatibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar başkatibi
  Calculated age 34
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 7 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1886/87 (AH 1304)
Diyarbakır / Place not recorded / Nusaybin/Cizre
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Nusaybin/Cizre
1. Diyarbakır
  Aşar başkatibi
  Calculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nusaybin/Cizre
  Nusaybin ve Cizre kaymakam vekili; Avniye mal müdürü tahkikatı (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 35
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Nusaybin
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Kaymakam vekili
  Calculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kaymakam vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)
  Calculated age 40
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1894/95 (AH 1312) · 3 recorded years
Mardin
AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Mutasarrıf vekili (fahri)
  0 kuruşCalculated age 43
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sancak tahrirat müdürü
  1,116 kuruşCalculated age 45
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Azil
  Calculated age 46
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1901/02 (AH 1319)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Tekaüt
  372 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 50
  Entry & evidence →[1]
13
1902/03 (AH 1320) · 6 recorded years
Prizren
AH entries: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Sancak tahrirat müdürü
  1,125 kuruşCalculated age 51
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sancak tahrirat müdürü
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 56
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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.

Mektubçu kalemi katibi · Diyarbakır · Undated · 100 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Sancak tahrirat müdürü · Mardin · Undated · 1,240 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Sancak tahrirat müdürü · Karesi · Undated · 1,500 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

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

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Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only

Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1871/72 (AH 1288)	50	420.5	125 to 2,375	2.9%	712
1877/78 (AH 1294)	300	450	150 to 1,800	29.8%	1160
1879/80 (AH 1297)	240	400	180 to 1,800	17.2%	1534
1881/82 (AH 1299)	640	400	150 to 1,500	72.6%	1489
1884/85 (AH 1302)	480	400	150 to 1,500	58.7%	1748
1896/97 (AH 1314)	1,116	450	150 to 1,575	83.1%	2119
1901/02 (AH 1319)	372	400	150 to 1,520	42.5%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	1,125	400	150 to 1,500	85.4%	1627
1907/08 (AH 1325)	1,500	460	135 to 1,615	87.6%	1290

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Diyarbakır11
1868 to 1887 (AH 1285 to 1304)
Prizren6
1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)
Mardin3
1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
Nusaybin1
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Nusaybin/Cizre1
1886/87 (AH 1304)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Diyarbakır50 to 640
Prizren1,125 to 1,500
Mardin0 to 1,116

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

Sancak tahrirat müdürü7
1896 to 1908 (AH 1314 to 1325)
Aşar başkatibi6
1881 to 1887 (AH 1299 to 1304)
Mektubçu kalemi katibi2
1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
Mutasarrıf vekili (fahri)2
1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
Aşar ve ağnam nezareti tahrirat mübeyyizi1
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Infisal1
1886/87 (AH 1304)

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

Diyarbakır44 other officialsPirinçizade Arif Efendi born 1852/53 (AH 1269); highest salary 750 kuruş
Diyarbakır55 other officialsMehmed Said Efendi 10 shared years; highest salary 1,400 kuruş
1868/69 (AH 1285)111 other officialsİbrahim Hilmi Efendi first annual entry 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 1,000 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Mekatib-i Adiye^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbet^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i ahval defterlerinde Diyarbekirli yöneticiler
İSHAK ŞİMŞEK · 2013 · Pages 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 23 dated AH years

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Annual salary study and register readings

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The life

Life and career

Birth

First work as recorded

Nusaybin ve Cizre kaymakam vekili; Avniye mal müdürü tahkikatı (İnfisal)

Kaymakam vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

Azil

Tekaüt