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Mehmed Tevfik Efendi

Born 1880/81 (AH 1298) · İdilli · Dated entries 1910/11 (AH 1328)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival references BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-2; BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-10

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1910/11 (AH 1328): İslahiye kazası müftüsü, İslahiye, 400 kuruşAH 1328
Places and reading notes
  • İslahiye

1 distinct dated year. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 2 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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 2 · İdilli

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

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    İdilli

    Not yet located on the map: İdilli

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    İslahiye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İslahiye

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 30

    2. İslahiye kazası müftüsü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

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
1910/11 (AH 1328)400500200 to 2,00031.3%732

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001910/11AH 13281910/11 (AH 1328) · 400 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. İslahiye1
    1910/11 (AH 1328)

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. İslahiye400

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. 1910/11 (AH 1328)

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; İcazetname; ilim ehliyeti mazbatası [1]

Schooling Cebel-i Bereket sıbyan mektebi; Kilis Kesikminare Camii Medresesi [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)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İdilli [source]
Birth province
Adana [source]
Birth year
1880/81 (AH 1298) [source]
Father’s occupation
Toprak ağası, çiftçi [source]
Archive references
BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-2 [1]BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-10 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
aşina; okur yazar [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]İcazetname; ilim ehliyeti mazbatası [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Cebel-i Bereket sıbyan mektebi; Kilis Kesikminare Camii Medresesi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
28 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
İslahiye [source]
First-salary field
400 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
1910/11 (AH 1328) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Meşîhat Arşivi'ne göre Osmanlı'nın son döneminde Ayntablı ilmiye sınıfı

    OĞUZ ÖLMEZ · 2021 · Pages 52, 53

    143 BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-2.; 147 BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-10.; BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 59-4-10.

Read the original source accounts · 2 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 · 1 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 1 entry. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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