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MUHAMMET BAHATTİN EFENDİ

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1883 to 1892 (AH 1301 to 1309)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00034_00033

The career, year by year

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

Follow 7 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. tahrirat kalemi memuru

      50 kuruşCalculated age 18

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 3 recorded years

    Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    1. tahrirat kalemi memuru

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrirat kalemi memuru

      70 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi / Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi; Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

    1. Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi

      tahrirat kalemi memuru

      70 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

      şube katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 2 recorded years

    Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

    AH entries: 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

    1. şube katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. şube katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi / Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Şamak şubesi / Place not recorded / Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi; Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Şamak şubesi; Location not recorded; Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi

    1. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi

      şube katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi

      mülazım (stajyer)

      Calculated age 25

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi / Hille sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi; Hille sancağı

    1. Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi

      mülazım (stajyer) (Nakil)

      Calculated age 26

      Recorded service ending

    2. Hille sancağı

      tahrirat müdürü

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 26

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
1883/84 (AH 1301)50400150 to 1,4001.6%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)70400150 to 1,5003.0%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)70400150 to 1,5003.5%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)70400150 to 1,5003.4%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)250400150 to 1,50020.9%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)250400130 to 1,50021.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)400400125 to 1,50045.4%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,400400140 to 1,60086.8%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. Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi5
    1883 to 1888 (AH 1301 to 1305)
  2. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi4
    1887 to 1891 (AH 1305 to 1308)
  3. Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. Hille sancağı1
    1891/92 (AH 1309)
  5. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Şamak şubesi1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)

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. Şehrizor sancağı tahrirat kalemi50 to 70
  2. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Salahiye şubesi250
  3. Hille sancağı1,400
  4. Musul vilayeti Emlak-ı Hümayun Şamak şubesi400

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. 1883 to 1888 (AH 1301 to 1305)
  2. 1887 to 1891 (AH 1305 to 1308)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  5. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  6. 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

Schooling Sıbyan ve Rüşdiye Mektebi (Kerkük); muallim-i mahsustan sarf, nahiv, mantık, fıkıh [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 272, 273, 274

    216 DH_SAİD,00034_00033

Read the original source accounts · 19 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 · 9 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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