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MEHMED NURİ EFENDİ

Born 1878 (AH 1295) · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Dated entries 1897 to 1911 (AH 1315 to 1328)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 195/245

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1897/98 (AH 1315): Rüsumat kolcusu, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 150 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316): Rüsumat kolcusu, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 150 kuruş1899/1900 (AH 1317): Rüsumat kolcusu, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 150 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318): Rüsumat kolcusu, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 150 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318): Bölük emini (Askerlik nedeniyle ara), İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük1903/04 (AH 1321): Muhafaza memuru, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 250 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324): Görevin sona ermesi, place unspecified1908/09 (AH 1326): Kayıt ve İskele memuru, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 250 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327): Kayıt ve İskele memuru, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 250 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328): Kayıt ve İskele memuru, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 250 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328): Sahil muhafaza memuru, Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü, 300 kuruşAH 1315AH 1328
Places and reading notes
  • Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü
  • İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük

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

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.

1Komotini (Gümülcine)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Komotini (Gümülcine)

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
    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Karaağaç / Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karaağaç; Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    1. Karaağaç

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

      Rüsumat kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

    Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    1. Rüsumat kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü / İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü; İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük

    1. Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

      Rüsumat kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük

      Bölük emini (Askerlik nedeniyle ara)

      Calculated age 23

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    Not yet located on the map: Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    1. Muhafaza memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

  6. 6

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 29

  7. 7

    1908/09 (AH 1326) · 3 recorded years

    Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    AH entries: 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü

    1. Kayıt ve İskele memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Kayıt ve İskele memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    3. Kayıt ve İskele memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    4. Sahil muhafaza memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

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.

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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
1897/98 (AH 1315)150400140 to 1,42510.3%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)150400144 to 1,40010.0%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)150400140 to 1,44010.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)150400140 to 1,50010.3%1761
1903/04 (AH 1321)250405150 to 1,45022.1%1578
1908/09 (AH 1326)250400150 to 2,00024.4%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)250600200 to 2,00015.1%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)300500200 to 2,00020.8%732

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01503001897/98AH 13151904/05AH 13221910/11AH 13281897/98 (AH 1315) · 150 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · 150 kuruş1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 150 kuruş1900/01 (AH 1318) · 150 kuruş1903/04 (AH 1321) · 250 kuruş1908/09 (AH 1326) · 250 kuruş1909/10 (AH 1327) · 250 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · 250 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · 300 kuruş

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● 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. Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü8
    1897 to 1911 (AH 1315 to 1328)
  2. İkinci Ordu-yu Hümayun Nizamiye 12. Alay, 1. Tabur, 1. Bölük1
    1900/01 (AH 1318)

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. Karaağaç Rüsumat Müdürlüğü150 to 300

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. 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318)
  2. 1908 to 1911 (AH 1326 to 1328)
  3. 1900/01 (AH 1318)
  4. 1906/07 (AH 1324)
  5. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  6. 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

Schooling Gümülcine İbtidai Mektebi; Mekteb-i İdadi-i Mülki [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Gümülcine [source]
Birth year
1878 (AH 1295) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİDd., 195/245 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Education detail
Gümülcine ibtidai;Mülki İdadide yaklaşık bir buçuk yıl;idadi tasdiknamesi. [source]
Education
Gümülcine İbtidai Mektebi; Mekteb-i İdadi-i Mülki [source]
Education level equivalent
9 [source]1.5 (original schooling-year field) [1]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
20 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Karaağaç [source]
First-salary field
150 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
1897/98 (AH 1315) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Gümülcineli devlet adamları

    ŞEHADET ORAN · 2025 · Pages 101, 102

    198 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 195/245.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 9 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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