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Mehmed Fahri Efendi

Born 1874/75 (AH 1291) · Ürgüp · Dated entries 1890 to 1914 (AH 1308 to 1332)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1011

The career, year by year

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

Follow 8 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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Ürgüp

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Ürgüp

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Mülazım

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mülazım

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Maaş kaydı

      60 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mülazım

      100 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Mülazım

      100 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Place not recorded / Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. Place not recorded

      Mülazım

      100 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Depo kâtibi refakati

      200 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 12 recorded years

    Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. Depo kâtibi refakati

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Depo kâtibi refakati

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 20 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi / Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi; Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi

    1. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Depo kâtibi refakati

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi

      Depo Kalemi kâtibi

      Calculated age 37

  8. 8

    1911 (AH 1329) · 4 recorded years

    Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi

    AH entries: 1329, 1330, 1331, 1332. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi

    1. Depo Kalemi kâtibi

      Calculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Depo Kalemi kâtibi

      700 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

4 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.

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
1893/94 (AH 1311)60400140 to 1,4002.8%1929
1895/96 (AH 1313)100400140 to 1,5005.0%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)100450150 to 1,5753.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)200400140 to 1,42515.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)200400144 to 1,40014.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)230400140 to 1,44020.5%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)260400140 to 1,50027.7%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)350400150 to 1,52038.7%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)350400150 to 1,50040.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)400405150 to 1,45043.1%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)400400135 to 1,50042.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)450430125 to 1,50050.4%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)570450150 to 1,52562.4%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)570460135 to 1,61560.9%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)570400150 to 2,00061.5%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)400600200 to 2,00031.0%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)400500200 to 2,00031.3%732
1911 (AH 1329)600600250 to 2,50046.6%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)6001,000300 to 3,00031.5%233
1912/13 (AH 1331)6501,200300 to 4,00029.3%151
1913/14 (AH 1332)7001,250300 to 3,00026.0%51

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. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi14
    1897 to 1911 (AH 1315 to 1328)
  2. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi5
    1910 to 1914 (AH 1328 to 1332)

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. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi100 to 570
  2. Matbah-ı Âmire İdaresi Depo Kalemi600 to 700

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. 1897 to 1911 (AH 1315 to 1328)
  2. 1890 to 1898 (AH 1308 to 1315)
  3. 1910 to 1914 (AH 1328 to 1332)
  4. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

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]

Schooling Mahallî ibtidai ve rüşdiye mektepleri [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

Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 146, 147

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1011

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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 · 24 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 39 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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