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MUHAMMET ŞEFİK EFENDİ

Born 1881/82 (AH 1299) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1902 to 1907 (AH 1320 to 1324)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00146_00183

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1902/03 (AH 1320): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1903/04 (AH 1321): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1904/05 (AH 1322): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1905/06 (AH 1323): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1906/07 (AH 1324): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1906/07 (AH 1324): Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım (Görevin sona ermesi), Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi1906/07 (AH 1324): Muhabere Memuru, Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi, 250 kuruşAH 1320AH 1324
Places and reading notes
  • Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

5 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 3 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 3 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük) / Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

    1. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

      Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 4 recorded years

    Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

    AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi

    1. Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    3. Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    4. Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    5. Muhabere memuriyeti rafakatinde mülazım (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

    6. Muhabere Memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

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
1906/07 (AH 1324)250450150 to 1,52522.2%1371

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01252501906/07AH 13241906/07 (AH 1324) · 250 kuruş

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. Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi5
    1902 to 1907 (AH 1320 to 1324)

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. Kerkük telgraf ve posta merkezi250

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. 1902 to 1907 (AH 1320 to 1324)
  2. 1906/07 (AH 1324)

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; Kerkük Rüşdiyesi âlâ derece şahadetname [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Kerkük Rüşdiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kerkük [source]
Birth province
Musul [source]
Birth year
1881/82 (AH 1299) [source]
Archive references
DH_SAİD,00146_00183 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Kerkük Rüşdiyesi âlâ derece şahadetname [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education detail
Rüşdiye, âlâ derece şahadetname [source]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Kerkük Rüşdiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
21 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Kerkük [source]
First work year
1902/03 (AH 1320) [source]
Apprenticeship
4 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 342, 343

    248 DH_SAİD,00146_00183

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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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 7 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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