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MUHAMMET TEVFİK EFENDİ

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1884 to 1902 (AH 1302 to 1319)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00095_00135

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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 10 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Zor sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Evrak kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 2 recorded years

    Zor sancağı

    AH entries: 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. Evrak kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evrak kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Zor sancağı / Aşara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı; Aşara

    1. Zor sancağı

      Evrak kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aşara

      Tahrirat memuru (fahri, ilaveten)

      0 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 4 recorded years

    Aşara

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aşara

    1. Belediye katibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat memuru (fahri, ilaveten)

      0 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Aşara / Zor sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aşara; Zor sancağı

    1. Aşara

      Belediye katibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Zor sancağı

      Meclis-i idare ikinci katibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Zor sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. Evrak memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 31

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Aşara

    Not yet located on the map: Aşara

    1. Tahrir ve vergi katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

  9. 9

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Zor sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. Tahrirat mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 35

  10. 10

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Zor sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Zor sancağı

    1. Tahrir ve vergi katibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

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
1887/88 (AH 1305)100400150 to 1,5005.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)100400135 to 1,5005.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)100400130 to 1,5005.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)100400125 to 1,5005.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)100400140 to 1,6004.8%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)200400140 to 1,40014.0%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1897/98 (AH 1315)250400140 to 1,42520.6%1891
1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666

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. Zor sancağı8
    1884 to 1902 (AH 1302 to 1319)
  2. Aşara7
    1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312)

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. Zor sancağı100 to 500
  2. Aşara0 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. 1887 to 1893 (AH 1305 to 1310)
  2. 1887 to 1893 (AH 1305 to 1310)
  3. 1884 to 1888 (AH 1302 to 1305)
  4. 1894 to 1902 (AH 1312 to 1319)
  5. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  6. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

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; Dir rüşdiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 193, 194

    176 DH_SAİD,00095_00135

Read the original source accounts · 26 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 · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 26 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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