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Muhiddin Bey

Born 1832/33 (AH 1248) · Bursa · Dated entries 1849 to 1893 (AH 1266 to 1310)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 42/140; 277

The career, year by year

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

Follow 9 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.

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

Stage 1 of 9 · Bursa

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1832/33 (AH 1248)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Hüdâvendigâr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. mülâzemetle Hüdâvendigâr vilâyet-i celilesi muhâsebe kalemi

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1850/51 (AH 1267) · 4 recorded years

    Hüdâvendigâr

    AH entries: 1267, 1268, 1269, 1270. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. mülâzemetle Hüdâvendigâr vilâyet-i celilesi muhâsebe kalemi

      Calculated age 19

    2. mülâzemetle Hüdâvendigâr vilâyet-i celilesi muhâsebe kalemi

      50 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1857/58 (AH 1274) · 10 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. muhâsebe-i mezkûrda yevmiye mukayidliği refâkati

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. muhâsebe mukayyidliği refâkati

      750 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Place not recorded / İnegöl

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      muhâsebe mukayyidliği refâkati

      750 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. İnegöl

      İnegöl kazasının aşar-ı ahalisine me’mur muavini (ilâveten)

      Calculated age 36

  6. 6

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 12 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. muhâsebe mukayyidliği refâkati

      750 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. mesarifat kitâbeti

      900 kuruşCalculated age 48

    All 25 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. muvazene ve muhâsebe kitâbeti

      800 kuruşCalculated age 52

    2. Açığa Çıkarıldı

      Calculated age 53

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Uşak

    1. Uşak kazaları ahali-i aşar me’muriyeti (ilâveten)

      Calculated age 59

  9. 9

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Kütahya ve Karahisar-ı sahib sancakları palamut aşar nezareti

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 60

    2. Mazuliyet

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 62

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry 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
1853/54 (AH 1270)50400100 to 3,0004.8%64
1857/58 (AH 1274)300400100 to 3,00041.0%96
1858/59 (AH 1275)300500150 to 5,00028.8%105
1859/60 (AH 1276)300500150 to 3,35025.4%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)500500150 to 3,00047.4%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)500500150 to 3,00043.8%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)500400140 to 3,00053.1%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)500475125 to 3,00050.2%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)900400125 to 3,00071.0%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)900400150 to 2,00074.1%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)900400146 to 2,00074.6%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)750458150 to 2,50065.2%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)750475150 to 3,00066.5%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)1,000400150 to 2,25075.3%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)1,000400150 to 2,00076.4%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)1,000420.5125 to 2,37575.5%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)800450140 to 2,35071.6%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)850405130 to 2,20073.1%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)900450150 to 1,80075.4%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)900450150 to 2,00074.7%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)900420150 to 2,00075.8%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)900450150 to 1,80075.7%1160
1878 (AH 1295)900450150 to 2,00077.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,050400150 to 2,00080.6%1328
1882/83 (AH 1300)800400150 to 1,40077.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,500400150 to 1,40090.5%1720
1890/91 (AH 1308)2,500400125 to 1,50094.8%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,500400140 to 1,60094.7%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,250400135 to 1,50086.6%1935

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. Hüdâvendigâr5
    1849 to 1854 (AH 1266 to 1270)
  2. 1867/68 (AH 1284)
  3. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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. Hüdâvendigâr50

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. 1864 to 1873 (AH 1281 to 1289)
  2. 1857 to 1865 (AH 1274 to 1281)
  3. 1873 to 1879 (AH 1290 to 1296)
  4. 1849 to 1854 (AH 1266 to 1270)
  5. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)
  6. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Bursa Cami-i kebir medresesi [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]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 318,319,320,321

    42/140; 277

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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 · 34 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 54 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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