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Mehmed Arif Efendi

Born 1837/38 (AH 1253) · Burdur · Dated entries 1866 to 1893 (AH 1283 to 1310)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 9, s. 187

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.

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

Stage 1 of 5 · Burdur

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

    1837/38 (AH 1253)

    Burdur

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Burdur

    1. Rüsumat Müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Burdur

      All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

    1. 4

      1889/90 (AH 1307)

      Burdur

        All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

      1. 5

        1892/93 (AH 1310)

        Tefenni / Karaağaç

        Within-year entry order unresolved

        Not yet located on the map: Tefenni; Karaağaç

        1. Tefenni

          Kaymakam vekili

          1,008 kuruşCalculated age 57

        2. Karaağaç

          Arazi, yoklama ve tapu kâtibi

          Calculated age 57

      13 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.

      Read all 13 undated entries and their source evidence →

      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
      1866/67 (AH 1283)500400146 to 2,00055.0%399
      1889/90 (AH 1307)500400130 to 1,50056.1%1874
      1892/93 (AH 1310)1,008400135 to 1,50084.2%1935

      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. 1866 to 1890 (AH 1283 to 1307)
      2. Karaağaç1
        1892/93 (AH 1310)
      3. Tefenni1
        1892/93 (AH 1310)

      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. Tefenni1,008

      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. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
      2. 1876/77 (AH 1293)
      3. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
      4. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
      5. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

      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 Sıbyan Mektebi; özel ders [source]

      Language skills and historical terms

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

      • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [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. Sultan II. Abdülhamid döneminde Sicill-i Ahval kayıtlarına göre Burdurlu kamu görevlileri ve faaliyetleri (1879-1909)

        ELİF YASEMİN YILMAZ · 2021 · Pages 166, 167, 168

        BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 9, s. 187; 968 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 9, s. 187. * Günümüzde Burdur Merkez’e bağlı köyleridir.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 9, s. 187.

      Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 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.

      Open the salary study and register readings →

      How to read the records

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