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Saraçzade Mehmet Emin Efendi

Born 1830/31 (AH 1246) · Osmancik · Dated entries 1858 to 1883 (AH 1275 to 1300)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAID 2/358

The career, year by year

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

Follow 11 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.

1OsmancikCideAraçİskilipKızılcahamam (Yabanabad)Sungurlu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Osmancik

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

    1830/31 (AH 1246)

    Osmancik

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Osmancik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 29

    2. Ziraat memuru

      Calculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Varay

    Not yet located on the map: Varay

      All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

    1. 4

      1869/70 (AH 1286) · 2 recorded years

      Daday

      AH entries: 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

      Not yet located on the map: Daday

        All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1871/72 (AH 1288)

        Daday / Cide

        Within-year entry order unresolved

        Not yet located on the map: Daday

          All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1873/74 (AH 1290)

          Araç / İskilip

          Within-year entry order unresolved

            All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

          1. 7

            1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

            İskilip

            AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

              All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1876/77 (AH 1293)

              İskilip / Kızılcahamam (Yabanabad)

              Within-year entry order unresolved

                All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

              1. 9

                1877/78 (AH 1294) · 2 recorded years

                Kızılcahamam (Yabanabad)

                AH entries: 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

                  All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1878/79 (AH 1296)

                  Sungurlu

                    All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

                  1. 11

                    1882/83 (AH 1300)

                    Cide

                    1. Kaymakam

                      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 54

                  9 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.

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                  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
                  1865/66 (AH 1282)500400150 to 2,00053.2%341
                  1869/70 (AH 1286)1,500400150 to 2,25082.9%609
                  1870/71 (AH 1287)1,500400150 to 2,00084.4%649
                  1871/72 (AH 1288)1,500420.5125 to 2,37584.0%712
                  1873/74 (AH 1290)1,350405130 to 2,20083.2%805
                  1876/77 (AH 1293)1,350420150 to 2,00084.9%1102
                  1877/78 (AH 1294)1,350450150 to 1,80085.5%1160
                  1878 (AH 1295)1,350450150 to 2,00085.5%1196
                  1882/83 (AH 1300)1,250400150 to 1,40086.8%1655

                  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. 1873 to 1877 (AH 1290 to 1293)
                  2. Daday3
                    1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
                  3. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1295)
                  4. 1871 to 1883 (AH 1288 to 1300)
                  5. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
                  6. 1858/59 (AH 1275)

                  The six most recorded places. 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. Daday1,500
                  2. Cide1,250 to 1,350
                  3. Araç1,350
                  4. Varay500

                  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. 1869 to 1883 (AH 1286 to 1300)
                  2. 1858/59 (AH 1275)
                  3. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
                  4. 1865/66 (AH 1282)
                  5. 1858/59 (AH 1275)

                  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 [source]

                  Language skills and historical terms

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

                  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

                  Honours and other personal details

                  Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
                  1 (recorded code) [source]
                  All personal fields and their sources

                  Sources and evidence

                  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Çorumlu devlet memurları (1879-1909)

                    HAYRETTİN ÖRS · 2019 · Pages 61, 62, 63, 64

                    DH. SAID 2/358

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                  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 17 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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