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MEHMET NURĠ EFENDĠ

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Seydişehir · Dated entries 1859 to 1885 (AH 1276 to 1302)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00013 -00027 51

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

1SeydişehirIstanbul (Dersaadet)SilifkeNiğdeÜrgüp
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Seydişehir

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. 1

    1839/40 (AH 1255)

    Seydişehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Bab Mahkemesi kitabetine devam

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1867/68 (AH 1284) · 2 recorded years

    Silifke

    AH entries: 1284, 1285. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Kaymakam

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Silifke / Seydişehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Silifke

      Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 31

    2. Seydişehir

      Mal Müdürü

      285 kuruşCalculated age 31

  5. 5

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years

    Seydişehir

    AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü

      285 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal müdürü (İstifa)

      Calculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 2 recorded years

    Niğde

    AH entries: 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.

    1. Meclis-i Taharri müstantikı

      750 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Meclis-i Taharri müstantikı

      750 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Niğde / Ürgüp

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Niğde

      Meclis-i Taharri müstantikı

      750 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ürgüp

      Kaymakam

      1,008 kuruşCalculated age 39

  8. 8

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Ürgüp / Koçhisar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Koçhisar

    1. Ürgüp

      Kaymakam

      1,008 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Koçhisar

      Memlaha müdür vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 40

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 6 recorded years

    Seydişehir

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi azası

      225 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi birinci kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 47

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1867/68 (AH 1284)1,500458150 to 2,50082.5%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)1,500475150 to 3,00081.2%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)285400150 to 2,25031.3%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)285400150 to 2,00030.1%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)285420.5125 to 2,37529.1%712
1875/76 (AH 1292)750450150 to 2,00070.9%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)750420150 to 2,00070.6%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,008450150 to 1,80081.0%1160
1878 (AH 1295)2,500450150 to 2,00092.7%1196
1879/80 (AH 1297)225400180 to 1,80015.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)225400160 to 1,50016.7%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)225400150 to 1,50016.9%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)225400150 to 1,40016.3%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)400400150 to 1,40046.1%1720

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. 1869 to 1885 (AH 1286 to 1302)
  2. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  3. 1867 to 1869 (AH 1284 to 1285)
  4. 1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
  5. 1859/60 (AH 1276)
  6. Koçhisar1
    1878 (AH 1295)

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. Seydişehir225 to 400
  2. Silifke1,500
  3. Ürgüp1,008
  4. Koçhisar2,500

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. 1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
  2. 1867 to 1878 (AH 1284 to 1295)
  3. 1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
  4. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  5. 1859/60 (AH 1276)
  6. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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; Şehadetname [1]

Schooling Atik Mekteb-i Maarif-i Mülkiye [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 Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Antalyalı memurlar (1879-1909)

    MEHMET FATİH DEMİRDAŞ · 2019 · Pages 68, 69

    71 BOA, DH.SAĠD.d.00013 -00027 51

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 16 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 23 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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