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Mehmed Talat Efendi

Born 1864/65 (AH 1281) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1883 to 1900 (AH 1301 to 1317)

Languages Turkish

Archival references DH_SAİDd_____00041_00046; DH_SAİDd_____00104_00086

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Çemişgezek

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

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Nüfus kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 12 recorded years

    Çemişgezek

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Nüfus kâtibi

      125 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal Müdürü Muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    All 19 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Çemişgezek / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Çemişgezek

      Mal Müdürü Muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çemişgezek

      Sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 2 recorded years

    Çemişgezek

    AH entries: 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sandık emini (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 35

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Akçadağı

    Not yet located on the map: Akçadağı

    1. Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 36

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
1883/84 (AH 1301)125400150 to 1,4007.2%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)125400150 to 1,5007.0%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)125400150 to 1,5007.8%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)125400150 to 1,5007.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)125400150 to 1,5008.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)500400130 to 1,50056.1%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)500400125 to 1,50056.0%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)500400140 to 1,60056.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)500400135 to 1,50056.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)500400140 to 1,50055.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)500400140 to 1,50055.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)360400140 to 1,42542.8%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)360400144 to 1,40041.8%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)540400140 to 1,44064.3%1821

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. 1883 to 1899 (AH 1301 to 1316)
  2. Akçadağı1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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. Çemişgezek120 to 500
  2. Akçadağı540

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. 1888 to 1897 (AH 1306 to 1314)
  2. 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
  3. 1890 to 1895 (AH 1308 to 1312)
  4. 1896 to 1899 (AH 1314 to 1316)
  5. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  6. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1] [2]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye [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 çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 216, 217

    329 DH_SAİDd_____00041_00046

  2. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 287, 288

    371 DH_SAİDd_____00104_00086

Read the original source accounts · 36 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 · 17 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 28 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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