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Mehmed Efendi

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Yenbuü'l-Bahr · Dated entries 1864 to 1894 (AH 1281 to 1311)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 5 · Yenbuü'l-Bahr

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

    1848/49 (AH 1265)

    Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    Not yet located on the map: Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Maliye Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282) · 6 recorded years

    Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    AH entries: 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    1. Maliye Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kâtibi

      Calculated age 22

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 19 recorded years

    Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenbuü'l-Bahr

    1. Tahrirat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Mal müdürü vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 45

      Recorded service ending

    All 27 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Yenbuü'l-Bahr / El-Vech

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenbuü'l-Bahr; El-Vech

    1. Yenbuü'l-Bahr

      Mal müdürlüğü refakati

      284.5 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yenbuü'l-Bahr

      Mal Müdürü

      628.5 kuruşCalculated age 46

    All 4 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
1869/70 (AH 1286)250400150 to 2,25023.0%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)250400150 to 2,00021.9%649
1875/76 (AH 1292)300450150 to 2,00028.5%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)300450150 to 1,80029.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)300450150 to 2,00029.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)270400150 to 1,50025.7%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)284.5400150 to 1,40027.3%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)284.5400150 to 1,40027.7%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)284.5400150 to 1,50027.4%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)284.5400150 to 1,50027.3%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)284.5400150 to 1,50027.5%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)284.5400150 to 1,50027.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)284.5400135 to 1,50029.2%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)284.5400130 to 1,50028.8%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)284.5400125 to 1,50028.2%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)284.5400140 to 1,60028.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)284.5400135 to 1,50027.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)628.5400140 to 1,40071.9%1929

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. Yenbuü'l-Bahr27
    1864 to 1894 (AH 1281 to 1311)
  2. El-Vech1
    1893/94 (AH 1311)

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. Yenbuü'l-Bahr250 to 628.5

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. 1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)
  2. 1869 to 1881 (AH 1286 to 1298)
  3. 1864 to 1870 (AH 1281 to 1286)
  4. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)
  5. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  6. 1878 (AH 1295)

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; hususi muallimden Arapça, Farsça ve hesap [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. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 168, 169

Read the original source accounts · 41 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 · 27 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 41 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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