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Mahmud Namık Efendi

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Malatya · Dated entries 1887 to 1904 (AH 1305 to 1321)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1887/88 (AH 1305): Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini, Denizli, 150 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306): Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini, Denizli, 150 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini, Denizli, 150 kuruş1890/91 (AH 1308): Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini, Denizli, 150 kuruş1890/91 (AH 1308): Süvari Tahsildar Çavuşu, Denizli, 180 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314): Süvari Tahsildarı, Denizli, 300 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320): Tahsilat Müfettişi, Buldan, 500 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320): Tahsilat Müfettişi, Çal1903/04 (AH 1321): Tahsilat Müfettişi, Garbi KaraağaçAH 1305AH 1321
Places and reading notes
  • Denizli
  • Buldan
  • Çal
  • Garbi Karaağaç

7 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 6 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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Malatya

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

  1. 1

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Denizli

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini

      150 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 3 recorded years

    Denizli

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini

      150 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini

      150 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    3. Piyade Tahsildarlığı Bölük Emini

      150 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    4. Süvari Tahsildar Çavuşu

      180 kuruşCalculated age 26

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Denizli

    1. Süvari Tahsildarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

  5. 5

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Buldan / Çal

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Buldan

      Tahsilat Müfettişi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Çal

      Tahsilat Müfettişi

      Calculated age 38

  6. 6

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Garbi Karaağaç

    Not yet located on the map: Garbi Karaağaç

    1. Tahsilat Müfettişi

      Calculated age 39

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
1887/88 (AH 1305)150400150 to 1,5009.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)150400135 to 1,50010.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)150400130 to 1,50010.7%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)180400125 to 1,50014.2%1896
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1902/03 (AH 1320)500400150 to 1,50055.5%1627

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02505001887/88AH 13051895/96AH 13131902/03AH 13201887/88 (AH 1305) · 150 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306) · 150 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · 150 kuruş1890/91 (AH 1308) · 150 kuruş1890/91 (AH 1308) · 180 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314) · 300 kuruş1902/03 (AH 1320) · 500 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. 1887 to 1897 (AH 1305 to 1314)
  2. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  4. Garbi Karaağaç1
    1903/04 (AH 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. Denizli150 to 300

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. 1887 to 1891 (AH 1305 to 1308)
  2. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 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

Schooling Malatya sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Malatya [source]
Birth year
1865/66 (AH 1282) [source]
Father’s occupation
Tüccar [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
az miktarda [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Malatya sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
23 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Denizli [source]
First-salary field
150 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1887/88 (AH 1305) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 270, 271

Read the original source accounts · 9 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 · 7 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 9 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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