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Mehmet Efendi

Born 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Bandırma · Dated entries 1896 to 1904 (AH 1314 to 1321)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1896/97 (AH 1314): Nüfus Kalemi mülazımı, Bandırma1896/97 (AH 1314): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi vekili, Bandırma, 62.5 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 125 kuruş1899/1900 (AH 1317): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 125 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 125 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 125 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 100 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 120 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 150 kuruş1903/04 (AH 1321): Nüfus ikinci kâtibi, Bandırma, 190 kuruşAH 1314AH 1321
Places and reading notes
  • Bandırma

6 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Bandırma

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.

  1. 1

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Bandırma

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Bandırma

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Nüfus Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

    3. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi vekili

      62.5 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 4 recorded years

    Bandırma

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    3. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    4. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    5. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 25

    6. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 25

    7. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 25

  4. 4

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Bandırma

    1. Nüfus ikinci kâtibi

      190 kuruşCalculated age 27

2 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
1896/97 (AH 1314)62.5450150 to 1,5752.4%2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)125400144 to 1,4007.3%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)125400140 to 1,4408.0%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)125400140 to 1,5008.3%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)150400150 to 1,5209.8%1666
1903/04 (AH 1321)190405150 to 1,45015.1%1578

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
0951901896/97AH 13141900/01AH 13181903/04AH 13211896/97 (AH 1314) · 62.5 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · 125 kuruş1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 125 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318) · 125 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · 125 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · 100 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · 120 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · 150 kuruş1903/04 (AH 1321) · 190 kuruş

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. 1896 to 1904 (AH 1314 to 1321)

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. Bandırma62.5 to 190

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. 1898 to 1904 (AH 1316 to 1321)
  2. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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; İbtidai ve rüştiye şahadetnameleri [1]

Schooling Bandırma İbtidai Mektebi; Bandırma Rüştiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Bandırma [source]
Birth province
Hüdavendigâr [source]
Birth year
1877/78 (AH 1294) [source]
Father’s occupation
Saatçi [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]İbtidai ve rüştiye şahadetnameleri [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Bandırma İbtidai Mektebi; Bandırma Rüştiye Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
20 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Bandırma [source]
First work year
1896/97 (AH 1314) [source]
Apprenticeship
0.3 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Bandırmalı devlet adamları

    ŞERİFE AÇIKGÖZ · 2020 · Pages 94, 95

Read the original source accounts · 12 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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 10 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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