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Mehmed Sâlim Efendi

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1878 to 1893 (AH 1295 to 1310)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00132_00022

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 12 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.

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

Stage 1 of 12 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Ovacık

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Ovacık / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Ovacık

      Rüsumat idaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 20

  4. 4

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 3 recorded years

    Dersim

    AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Tahrir-i vergi kitâbeti refik-i evveli

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Tahrir-i vergi kitâbeti refik-i evveli

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Dersim / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Dersim

      Tahrir-i vergi kitâbeti refik-i evveli

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çemişgezek

      Vergi kitâbeti refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Vergi kitâbeti refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Mazgirt / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mazgirt

      Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Çemişgezek

      Vergi kitâbeti refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

  8. 8

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Çemişgezek / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Çemişgezek

      Vergi kitâbeti refiki

      250 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 28

  9. 9

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 2 recorded years

    Dersim

    AH entries: 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Tahrirat kalemi memuru

      120 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Hapishane memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Dersim / Place not recorded / Mazgirt

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim; Location not recorded

    1. Dersim

      Hapishane memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mazgirt

      Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Mazgirt / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mazgirt

      Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çemişgezek

      Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 33

  12. 12

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Çemişgezek / Place not recorded / Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Dersim

    1. Çemişgezek

      Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dersim

      Hapishane kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 34

    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

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
1878 (AH 1295)200450150 to 2,00014.6%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)200400150 to 2,00012.1%1328
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)300400150 to 1,40028.3%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)250400150 to 1,50019.9%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)400400150 to 1,50044.7%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)250400150 to 1,50020.1%1725
1888/89 (AH 1306)120400135 to 1,5007.8%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935

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. Dersim8
    1880 to 1893 (AH 1298 to 1310)
  2. 1883 to 1893 (AH 1301 to 1310)
  3. 1885 to 1892 (AH 1303 to 1309)
  4. 1878 to 1879 (AH 1295 to 1296)

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. Dersim120 to 300
  2. Mazgirt250 to 400

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. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  2. 1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304)
  3. 1878 to 1893 (AH 1296 to 1310)
  4. 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
  5. 1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  6. 1878 to 1879 (AH 1295 to 1296)

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.

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 322, 323, 324

    DH_SAİDd_____00132_00022; 390 DH_SAİDd_____00132_00022

Read the original source accounts · 24 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 · 14 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 24 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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