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Mehmet ġevki Bey

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Kars · Dated entries 1870 to 1911 (AH 1287 to 1328)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 25/417; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 25/417

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1KarsDiyarbakırFoča (Foça)OsmancikSuşehriGümüşhacıköyDeveliVizeUşakBlagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma)Kriva Palanka (Eğri Palanka)Tyre (Sur)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 20 · Kars

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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

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Kars

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Diyarbakır

    1. Zabıta Birinci Sınıf Teftiş Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 25

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Basire

    Not yet located on the map: Basire

    1. Kaymakam

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 27

  4. 4

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Resulayn

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Resulayn

    1. Kaymakam

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Yayça

    Not yet located on the map: Yayça

    1. Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 29

  6. 6

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Derbent

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Derbent

    1. Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 30

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Prijedor / Belene

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Prijedor; Belene

    1. Prijedor

      Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Belene

      Kaymakam

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 31

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  8. 8

    1878 (AH 1295) · 2 recorded years

    Foča (Foça)

    AH entries: 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      2,130 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Kaymakam (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 34

      Recorded service ending

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  9. 9

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Osmancik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 35

    2. Kaymakam

      1,100 kuruşCalculated age 35

  10. 10

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years

    Suşehri

    AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,100 kuruşCalculated age 43

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 44

      Recorded service ending

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  11. 11

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Gümüşhacıköy

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Maadin-i Hümayun Müdür vekili

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. Maadin-i Hümayun Müdür vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 46

      Recorded service ending

  12. 12

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 3 recorded years

    Develi

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kaymakam

      1,620 kuruşCalculated age 48

    2. Kaymakam

      1,620 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

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  13. 13

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Develi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Develi

      Kaymakam

      1,620 kuruşCalculated age 51

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      mazuliyet maaşı (Tekaüt)

      540 kuruşCalculated age 51

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  14. 14

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Vize

    1. Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 53

  15. 15

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Uşak

    1. Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 55

  16. 16

    1. Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 56

  17. 17

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Kriva Palanka (Eğri Palanka)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 58

    2. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 58

      Recorded service ending

  18. 18

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. mazuliyet maaşı (Tekaüt)

      787 kuruşCalculated age 59

  19. 19

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Tyre (Sur) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tyre (Sur)

      Kaymakam

      1,575 kuruşCalculated age 65

    2. Place not recorded

      kadro harici mazuliyet maaşı (Tekaüt)

      950 kuruşCalculated age 65

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  20. 20

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. mazuliyet maaşı artışı (Tekaüt)

      1,425 kuruşCalculated age 66

    2. Tetkik Tensikat Komisyonu istihdam kararı

      Calculated age 66

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

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Current collection salary comparison

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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
1870/71 (AH 1287)500400150 to 2,00054.9%649
1872/73 (AH 1289)1,800450140 to 2,35086.7%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,800405130 to 2,20087.4%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)2,250450150 to 1,80091.9%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)2,250450150 to 2,00091.1%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)2,250420150 to 2,00091.9%1102
1878 (AH 1295)2,130450150 to 2,00091.9%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)2,130400150 to 2,00091.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)1,250400180 to 1,80084.2%1534
1887/88 (AH 1305)1,100400150 to 1,50082.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)1,100400135 to 1,50082.9%1797
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,000400125 to 1,50079.8%1896
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,620400135 to 1,50091.1%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,620400140 to 1,40092.0%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,620400140 to 1,50091.8%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,620400140 to 1,50090.9%1981
1897/98 (AH 1315)1,575400140 to 1,42591.3%1891
1899/1900 (AH 1317)1,575400140 to 1,44091.5%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)1,575400140 to 1,50091.3%1761
1902/03 (AH 1320)1,575400150 to 1,50091.6%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)787405150 to 1,45076.4%1578
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,575600200 to 2,00084.7%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)1,425500200 to 2,00080.2%732

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
  2. 1878 to 1879 (AH 1295 to 1296)
  3. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  4. Basire1
    1872/73 (AH 1289)
  5. Belene1
    1876/77 (AH 1293)
  6. 1900/01 (AH 1318)

The six most recorded places. 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. Develi1,620
  4. Basire1,800
  5. Belene2,250

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1872 to 1910 (AH 1289 to 1327)
  2. 1895 to 1904 (AH 1313 to 1321)
  3. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  5. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
  6. 1910/11 (AH 1328)

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Education and personal record

Schooling Kars Sıbyan Mektebi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)

    RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ · 2015 · Pages 109, 110, 111, 112

    102 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 25/417.; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 25/417

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 23 dated AH years

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