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Sâlim Efendi

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Germili, Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1862 to 1892 (AH 1279 to 1309)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00003_00279

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 18 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.

ErzincanAmasyaIstanbul (Dersaadet)KonyaAdana
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 18 · Germili, Çemişgezek

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.

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

  1. 1

    1839/40 (AH 1255)

    Germili, Çemişgezek

    Not yet located on the map: Germili, Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. Dersim sancağı tahrirat kalemi mülâzımı

      Calculated age 24

  3. 3

    1863/64 (AH 1280) · 3 recorded years

    Erzincan

    AH entries: 1280, 1281, 1282. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Erzincan sancağı tahrirat kalemi mülâzımı

      Calculated age 25

    2. Erzincan meclis-i temyiz hukuk kitabeti refakati

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Erzincan / Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

    1. Erzincan

      Erzincan meclis-i temyiz hukuk kitabeti refakati

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

      Silâsî kazası tahrirat kâtibi

      233 kuruşCalculated age 28

  5. 5

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

    1. Silâsî kazası tahrirat kâtibi

      233 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî / Amasya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

    1. Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî

      Silâsî kazası tahrirat kâtibi

      233 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Amasya

      Amasya sancağı heyet-i tahririye mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 30

  7. 7

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Amasya / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Amasya

      Amasya sancağı heyet-i tahririye mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Beyoğlu tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

  8. 8

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Beyoğlu tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beyoğlu bidayet mahkemesi müsevvidi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 3 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    1. İstanbul ceza dairesi şubesi müstantiki

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. İstanbul ceza mahkemesi müstantiki

      1,050 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Konya

    AH entries: 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstanbul ceza mahkemesi müstantiki

      1,050 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstanbul bidayet mahkemesi müstantiki

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 42

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. İstanbul bidayet mahkemesi müstantiki

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

  12. 12

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Adana

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstanbul bidayet mahkemesi müstantiki

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Adana

      Adana vilayeti müddeî-i umumisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 44

  13. 13

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Adana

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

    1. Adana vilayeti müddeî-i umumisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Adana vilayeti müddeî-i umumisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  14. 14

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Adana / Konya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Adana

      Adana vilayeti müddeî-i umumisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Konya

      Konya vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi müddeî-i umumisi

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 48

  15. 15

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti

    Not yet located on the map: Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti

    1. Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 51

  16. 16

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti / Konya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti

    1. Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti

      Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 52

      Continuing service as described

    2. Konya

      Konya vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 52

  17. 17

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Konya

    1. Konya vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 53

      Continuing service as described

  18. 18

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Konya / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Konya

      Konya vilayeti istinaf mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      3,500 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 54

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.

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
1863/64 (AH 1280)200475125 to 3,00019.9%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)200400125 to 3,00019.8%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)200400150 to 2,00015.6%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)233400146 to 2,00023.1%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)233458150 to 2,50021.0%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)250475150 to 3,00020.6%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)400400150 to 2,25044.6%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)600400150 to 2,00064.8%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)500420.5125 to 2,37554.4%712
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,000420150 to 2,00077.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,050450150 to 1,80081.2%1160
1878 (AH 1295)1,050450150 to 2,00082.0%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)4,000400150 to 2,00095.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)4,000400180 to 1,80095.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)1,500400160 to 1,50090.0%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)3,000400150 to 1,50095.4%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)3,000400150 to 1,40095.8%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)3,000400150 to 1,40096.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)3,000400150 to 1,50095.8%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)3,000400150 to 1,50095.6%1787
1888/89 (AH 1306)3,500400135 to 1,50097.3%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)3,500400130 to 1,50097.2%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)3,500400125 to 1,50096.9%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)3,500400140 to 1,60096.8%1927

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. 1869 to 1882 (AH 1286 to 1299)
  2. 1878 to 1892 (AH 1296 to 1309)
  3. 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  4. 1863 to 1867 (AH 1280 to 1283)
  5. Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî3
    1866 to 1869 (AH 1283 to 1285)
  6. 1868 to 1870 (AH 1285 to 1286)

The six most recorded places. 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. Konya3,000 to 4,000
  2. Adana3,000
  3. Karahisar-ı Şarkî sancağı, Silâsî233

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  2. 1863 to 1866 (AH 1280 to 1282)
  3. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  4. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  5. 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  6. 1866 to 1869 (AH 1283 to 1285)

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.

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
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Judicial record as worded
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All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 171, 172, 173

    299 DH_SAİDd_____00003_00279

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 37 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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