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Muhsin Efendi

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · Dated entries 1882 to 1893 (AH 1300 to 1310)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd. 128-171

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 3 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.

1Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)Edirne
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

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

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Edirne

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Edirne Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi mukayyidi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 16

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 10 recorded years

    Edirne

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Edirne Merkez Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi mukayyidi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Edirne Duyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi müsveddecisi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry 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
1882/83 (AH 1300)225400150 to 1,40016.3%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)225400150 to 1,40016.2%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)225400150 to 1,50016.6%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)225400150 to 1,50017.1%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)225400150 to 1,50017.9%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)225400150 to 1,50019.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)225400135 to 1,50019.9%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)225400130 to 1,50019.9%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)225400125 to 1,50020.1%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)150400140 to 1,60010.5%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. 1882 to 1893 (AH 1300 to 1310)

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. Edirne150 to 250

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. 1882 to 1891 (AH 1300 to 1308)
  2. 1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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; Diploma [1]

Schooling Sıbyan ve rüşdiye mektepleri [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Dimetokalı memurlar

    SİBEL EDEMEN · 2025 · Pages 165, 166

    BOA. DH. SAİDd. 128-171

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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How to read the records

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