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Mehmet Fahri Efendi

Born 1874/75 (AH 1291) · Ürgüp · Dated entries 1890 to 1900 (AH 1308 to 1317)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00135/00138

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.

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

Stage 1 of 5 · Ürgüp

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

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Ürgüp

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Feriye Matbahı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Feriye Matbahı

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Feriye Matbahı mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 6 recorded years

    Feriye Matbahı

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Feriye Matbahı

    1. Feriye Matbahı mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Feriye Matbahı hizmeti

      100 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Feriye Matbahı / Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Feriye Matbahı; Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi

    1. Feriye Matbahı

      Feriye Matbahı hizmeti

      100 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi

      Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi depo kâtibi refiki

      200 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

    Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

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

    1. Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi depo kâtibi refiki

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi depo kâtibi refiki

      230 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1894/95 (AH 1312)60400140 to 1,5002.6%2004
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

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. Feriye Matbahı8
    1890 to 1898 (AH 1308 to 1315)
  2. Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi3
    1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)

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. Feriye Matbahı60 to 100
  2. Matbah-ı Amire İdaresi100 to 230

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. 1893 to 1898 (AH 1311 to 1315)
  2. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)
  3. 1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)

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 şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mahallî İbtidai Mektebi; rüşdiye [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. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Ürgüplü devlet adamları

    HATİCE KÜBRA YILDIZ · 2020 · Pages 111

    ¹⁵⁴ BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00135/00138. 97

Read the original source accounts · 15 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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