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Mehmet Emin Efendi

Born 1854/55 (AH 1271) · Sivas · Dated entries 1876 to 1879 (AH 1293 to 1296)

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00074,s.51

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1876/77 (AH 1293): stajyer, Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi1877/78 (AH 1294): stajyer, Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi1878 (AH 1295): stajyer, Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi1878/79 (AH 1296): kalem memuru, Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi, 200 kuruş1878/79 (AH 1296): kalem memuru, Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi, 320 kuruşAH 1293AH 1295AH 1296
Places and reading notes
  • Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi

4 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.

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

Stage 1 of 3 · Sivas

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.

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

  1. 1

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. stajyer

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 3 recorded years

    Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    1. stajyer

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. stajyer

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    3. kalem memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

    4. kalem memuru

      320 kuruşCalculated age 25

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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.

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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
1878/79 (AH 1296)320400150 to 2,00038.9%1328

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01603201878/79AH 12961878/79 (AH 1296) · 200 kuruş1878/79 (AH 1296) · 320 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. Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi4
    1876 to 1879 (AH 1293 to 1296)

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. Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi200 to 320

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. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1295)
  2. 1878/79 (AH 1296)

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; Rüştiye diploması [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1854/55 (AH 1271) [source]
Father’s occupation
Duhan müfettişi [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d.nr.00074,s.51 [1]

Education and languages

Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Rüştiye diploması [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Rüştiye [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
26 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Tokat sancağı tahrirat kalemi [source]
First work year
1876/77 (AH 1293) [source]
Apprenticeship
3 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 247, 248

    426 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00074,s.51; DH.SAİD.d.nr.00074,s.51

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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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 5 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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