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Mehmed Rifat Efendi

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Bursa · Dated entries 1887 to 1901 (AH 1305 to 1318)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 72/189; 277

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

1Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Bursa

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.

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

  1. 1

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Rumeli Kadıaskerliği ve (Okunamadı) evvelisi kitâbeti

      40 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Rumeli Kadıaskerliği ve (Okunamadı) evvelisi kitâbeti

      40 kuruşCalculated age 21

    2. bab-ı vâlâyı fütüvvi evrak kalemi

      108 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. bab-ı vâlâyı fütüvvi evrak kalemi

      133 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Infisal

      Calculated age 27

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. mecâlis mesalih kitâbeti

      308 kuruşCalculated age 30

  6. 6

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. mecâlis mesalih kitâbeti

      490.5 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. mecâlis-i mezkûr müdir muavinliği

      600 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.

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)40400150 to 1,5001.5%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)40400135 to 1,5001.9%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)40400130 to 1,5001.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)53400125 to 1,5003.1%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)108400140 to 1,6006.8%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)108400135 to 1,5007.0%1935
1894/95 (AH 1312)285400140 to 1,50028.2%2004
1897/98 (AH 1315)308400140 to 1,42538.1%1891
1900/01 (AH 1318)600400140 to 1,50067.8%1761

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.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1890 to 1895 (AH 1308 to 1312)
  2. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  3. 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318)
  4. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  5. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  6. 1900/01 (AH 1318)

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 Şehr-i mezkûr sıbyan mektebi; rüşdi mektebi; cami-i kebir [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 Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 282,283,284

    72/189; 277

Read the original source accounts · 16 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 · 9 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 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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