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Mustafa Fehmi Efendi

Born 1881/82 (AH 1299) · Malatya · Dated entries 1900 to 1910 (AH 1318 to 1327)

Languages Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD.00168.00139, s. 275

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.

1Malatya
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 4 recorded years

    Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 19

      Recorded service ending

    2. Muhasebe Kalemi kâtibi

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi / Merdis

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi; Merdis

    1. Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi

      Muhasebe Kalemi kâtibi

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Merdis

      Vergi Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1905/06 (AH 1323) · 4 recorded years

    Merdis

    AH entries: 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Merdis

    1. Vergi Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vergi Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Merdis / Tizkebir / Pütürge

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Merdis; Tizkebir; Pütürge

    1. Merdis

      Vergi Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pütürge

      Mal Müdürü

      800 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

  • Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı · Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • First work as recorded · Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi · Year not recorded

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

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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.

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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
1900/01 (AH 1318)25400140 to 1,5001.0%1761
1904/05 (AH 1322)340400135 to 1,50037.4%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)340430125 to 1,50036.4%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)340450150 to 1,52537.0%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)340460135 to 1,61537.3%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)340400150 to 2,00040.1%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)800600200 to 2,00061.4%1088

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. Merdis6
    1904 to 1910 (AH 1322 to 1327)
  2. Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi5
    1900 to 1905 (AH 1318 to 1322)
  3. Pütürge1
    1909/10 (AH 1327)
  4. Tizkebir1
    1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. Merdis340
  2. Malatya Sancağı Muhasebe Kalemi25
  3. Pütürge500 to 800
  4. Tizkebir500

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. 1904 to 1910 (AH 1322 to 1327)
  2. 1900 to 1905 (AH 1318 to 1322)
  3. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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 Malatya Sıbyan Mektebi; Malatya Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Persian · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 334, 335

    DH. SAİD.00168.00139, s. 275

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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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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