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Mehmed Emin Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Malatya · Dated entries 1882 to 1905 (AH 1300 to 1322)

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 10 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.

1MalatyaIstanbul (Dersaadet)OsmaniyeSaimbeyli (Haçin)Ovacık
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Malatya

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

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Malatya Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Malatya Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Malatya Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Malatya

      Tahrirat Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    1. Evkaf Nezareti Cihat Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 22

    2. Evkaf Nezareti Cihat Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Evkaf Nezareti Cihat Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Malatya

      Evkaf Muhasebe Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 24

  5. 5

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Evkaf Muhasebe Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evkaf Muhasebe Müdürü (Azil)

      Calculated age 26

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Keban Madeni / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keban Madeni

    1. Keban Madeni

      Kaymakam vekili

      625 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Malatya

      Reji Muhafaza Müfettişi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 27

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Islahiye / Osmaniye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Islahiye

    1. Islahiye

      Kaymakam vekili

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Osmaniye

      Kaymakam vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Kars-ı Zülkadriye / Saimbeyli (Haçin) / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kars-ı Zülkadriye

    1. Kars-ı Zülkadriye

      Kaymakam vekili

      875 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Malatya

      Evkaf Müdür vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 29

      Recorded service ending

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Ovacık

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aşar İhale Memuru

      Calculated age 31

    2. Aşar İhale Memuru (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

  10. 10

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Teke

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. Evkaf Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 42

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.

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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
1886/87 (AH 1304)400400150 to 1,50045.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)400400150 to 1,50043.8%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)400400135 to 1,50045.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)625400130 to 1,50072.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,250400125 to 1,50085.3%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,250400140 to 1,60085.3%1927
1904/05 (AH 1322)400400135 to 1,50042.2%1493

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. 1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)
  2. 1884 to 1887 (AH 1302 to 1304)
  3. Islahiye1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. Kars-ı Zülkadriye1
    1891/92 (AH 1309)
  5. Keban Madeni1
    1889/90 (AH 1307)
  6. 1890/91 (AH 1308)

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. Malatya200 to 400
  2. Islahiye1,250
  3. Kars-ı Zülkadriye875
  4. Keban Madeni625

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  2. 1884 to 1887 (AH 1302 to 1304)
  3. 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  4. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)
  6. 1904/05 (AH 1322)

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 [source]

Schooling Malatya sıbyan mektebi; Malatya Rüşdiyesi [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 Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 295, 296, 297, 298

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 25 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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