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Mehmed Suad Bey

Born 1880/81 (AH 1298) · Antakya · Dated entries 1905 to 1912 (AH 1323 to 1330)

Languages Arabic, Armenian, French, Persian

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

1AntakyaAleppo (Halep)BelenKarsZlatograd (Darıdere)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Antakya

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

  1. 1

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Antakya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Aleppo (Halep)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Vilayet Maiyet Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 25

  3. 3

    1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years

    Aleppo (Halep)

    AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    1. Vilayet Maiyet Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet Maiyet Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Aleppo (Halep) / Belen

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aleppo (Halep)

      Vilayet Maiyet Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aleppo (Halep)

      Kaymakamlık stajyerliği tamamlandı

      Calculated age 28

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Aleppo (Halep) / Kars

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aleppo (Halep)

      Vilayet Maiyet Memuru (Nakil)

      Calculated age 29

      Recorded service ending

    2. Kars

      Kaymakam

      1,450 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Kars / Karaisalı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karaisalı

    1. Kars

      Kaymakam

      Calculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Karaisalı

      Kaymakam

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Karaisalı

    Not yet located on the map: Karaisalı

    1. Kaymakam

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    Karaisalı / Zlatograd (Darıdere)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karaisalı

    1. Karaisalı

      Kaymakam

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Zlatograd (Darıdere)

      Kaymakam

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

3 entries 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
1905/06 (AH 1323)500430125 to 1,50052.7%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)500450150 to 1,52551.5%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)500460135 to 1,61550.6%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)500400150 to 2,00052.4%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,450600200 to 2,00079.7%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)2,000500200 to 2,00087.4%732
1911 (AH 1329)2,000600250 to 2,50081.5%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)2,0001,000300 to 3,00071.1%233

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. 1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
  2. Karaisalı3
    1910 to 1912 (AH 1328 to 1330)
  3. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  5. 1911/12 (AH 1330)

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. Karaisalı2,000
  2. Kars1,450

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. 1909 to 1912 (AH 1327 to 1330)
  2. 1905 to 1909 (AH 1323 to 1326)
  3. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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; Mülkiye diploması (aliyyülâlâ) [1]

Schooling Mülkiye Mektebi [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 Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

    NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 202, 203

Read the original source accounts · 20 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 · 8 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 17 entries. 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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