Mehmet Şevki Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Sivas · Dated entries 1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315

The career, year by year

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

Places and reading notes

Manastıraltı Memlehası
Cerit Memlehası

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.

The life

Mehmet Şevki Efendi was born in Sivas in 1860/61 (AH 1277), within the İslam community. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye. The language repertoire included Arabic, Persian and Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Çarkı Memlehası. Dated career entries span 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 1897/98 (AH 1315) across 2 AH years, from Manastıraltı Memlehası to Cerit Memlehası, beginning with muvakkat memur. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Manastıraltı Memlehası and Cerit Memlehası.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 400 kuruş in 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 600 kuruş in 1897/98 (AH 1315); the highest recorded monthly rate is 600 kuruş in 1897/98 (AH 1315).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Sivas · 1860/61 (AH 1277)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye^[source]
First work: Çarkı Memlehası^[source]
First salary: 400 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

2
Dated AH years: 6
Career place names: 8
Entries without a resolved year: 2
Salary years: 400 → 600
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 600
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 70.5%
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. 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 1897/98 (AH 1315); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1897/98 (AH 1315)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1897/98 (AH 1315).

Life and career

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● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Sivas

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
1860/61 (AH 1277)
Sivas
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Manastıraltı Memlehası
Not yet located on the map: Manastıraltı Memlehası
1. muvakkat memur
  400 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Place not recorded / Cerit Memlehası
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Cerit Memlehası
1. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Cerit Memlehası
  daimi memleha memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]

9 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.

muvakkat ihracat memur muavini · Çarkı Memlehası · Undated · 400 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
muvakkat ihracat memuru · Cerit Memlehası · Undated · 550 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
muvakkat ihracat memuru · Hargün Memlehası · Undated · 550 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
baş memleha memuru · Marda Memlehası · Undated · 350 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
muvakkat sandık emini · Cerit Memlehası · Undated · 300 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
muvakkat sandık emini · Hargün Memlehası · Undated · 400 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
muvakkat memur · Tuzhisar Memlehası · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
memur vekili · Hargün Memlehası · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · Çarkı Memlehası · Year not recorded

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

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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
1894/95 (AH 1312)	400	400	140 to 1,500	44.9%	2004
1897/98 (AH 1315)	600	400	140 to 1,425	70.5%	1891

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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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

Cerit Memlehası1
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Manastıraltı Memlehası1
1894/95 (AH 1312)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Cerit Memlehası600
Manastıraltı Memlehası400

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

daimi memleha memuru1
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Infisal1
1897/98 (AH 1315)
muvakkat memur1
1894/95 (AH 1312)

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

Sivas398 other officialsAhmed Battal Efendi born 1860/61 (AH 1277); highest salary 500 kuruş
1894/95 (AH 1312)224 other officialsAbdurrahman Efendi first annual entry 1894/95 (AH 1312); highest salary 400 kuruş

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüştiye diploması^[1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Aşina^[source]
Persian · Aşina^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace: Sivas^[source]
Birth province: Sivas^[source]
Birth year: 1860/61 (AH 1277)^[source]
Religion: İslam^[source]
Archive references: DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315^[1]

Education and languages

Arabic: Aşina^[source]
Persian: Aşina^[source]
Turkish: Kitâbet^[source]okur yazar^[1]
Qualification: Formal qualification recorded^[source]Rüştiye diploması^[1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye^[source]
Education level equivalent: 7^[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place: Çarkı Memlehası^[source]
First-salary field: 400 kuruş (personal first-salary field)^[source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları
NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 309, 310, 311
503 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315; DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315

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