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MUHAMMED HAMDİ BEG

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1881 to 1900 (AH 1299 to 1317)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00095_00137

The career, year by year

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

Follow 7 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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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

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Kerkük sancağı muhasebe kalemi / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük sancağı muhasebe kalemi

    1. Kerkük sancağı muhasebe kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      mülazım (muhasebe kalemi)

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 5 recorded years

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    1. mülazım (muhasebe kalemi)

      Calculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

    2. mülazım (muhasebe kalemi)

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük) / Salahiyye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Salahiyye

    1. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      mülazım (muhasebe kalemi)

      Calculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Salahiyye

      ağnam katibi (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 20

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 8 recorded years

    Salahiyye

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Salahiyye

    1. sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 21

    2. sandık emini (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 3 recorded years

    Ravanduz

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Ravanduz

    1. Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Ravanduz / Raniye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ravanduz; Raniye

    1. Ravanduz

      Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Raniye

      Mal Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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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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
1888/89 (AH 1306)360400135 to 1,50043.1%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)360400130 to 1,50043.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)360400125 to 1,50042.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)360400140 to 1,60042.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)500400135 to 1,50056.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)360400140 to 1,50042.3%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)360400140 to 1,50042.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)500400140 to 1,42556.9%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)500400144 to 1,40055.8%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821

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. Salahiyye9
    1887 to 1896 (AH 1305 to 1313)
  2. 1881 to 1888 (AH 1299 to 1305)
  3. Ravanduz4
    1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
  4. Raniye1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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. Salahiyye360 to 500
  2. Ravanduz500
  3. Raniye500

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. 1881 to 1888 (AH 1299 to 1305)
  2. 1888 to 1896 (AH 1306 to 1313)
  3. 1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
  4. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  5. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

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

Schooling Sıbyan 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 Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 181, 182

    168 DH_SAİD,00095_00137; DH_SAİD,00095_00137

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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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 28 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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