Mehmed Şevki Efendi

Born 1842/43 (AH 1258) · Drama · Dated entries 1877 to 1905 (AH 1294 to 1322)

Languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 42-407

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmed Şevki Efendi was born in Drama in 1842/43 (AH 1258). Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; medrese. The language repertoire included Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur in 1877/78 (AH 1294). Dated career entries span 1877/78 (AH 1294) to 1903/04 (AH 1321) across 25 AH years, from Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur to Balik, beginning with sağ kolağası and ending with entries for Nahiye Müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur, Katrin (Katerini), Çeç and Karsındı and 6 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 560 kuruş in 1879/80 (AH 1297) to 432 kuruş in 1903/04 (AH 1321); the highest recorded monthly rate is 750 kuruş in 1893/94 (AH 1311).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Drama · 1842/43 (AH 1258)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; medrese^[source]
First work: 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur^[source]
Age at first work: 36^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.

Career in numbers

26
Dated AH years: 11
Career place names: 1
Entries without a resolved year: 23
Salary years: 560 → 432
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 750
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 50.5%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1879/80 (AH 1297) to 1903/04 (AH 1321); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1903/04 (AH 1321).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 17 · Drama

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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.

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

1
1842/43 (AH 1258)
Drama
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 36
  Personal record & evidence →
2. sağ kolağası
  Calculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1878 (AH 1295)
Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur
1. sağ kolağası
  Calculated age 37
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. sağ kolağası (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 37
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Katrin (Katerini)
Not yet located on the map: Katrin (Katerini)
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  560 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1880/81 (AH 1298)
Katrin (Katerini) / Çeç
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Katrin (Katerini); Çeç
1. Katrin (Katerini)
  Nahiye Müdürü
  560 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Çeç
  Nahiye Müdürü
  400 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1881/82 (AH 1299) · 3 recorded years
Çeç
AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Çeç
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  400 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 43
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1884/85 (AH 1302) · 6 recorded years
Karsındı
AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Karsındı
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  483 kuruşCalculated age 44
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nahiye Müdürü
  483 kuruşCalculated age 49
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1890/91 (AH 1308)
Karsındı / Sırkıntı
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Karsındı; Sırkıntı
1. Karsındı
  Nahiye Müdürü
  483 kuruşCalculated age 50
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sırkıntı
  Nahiye Müdürü
  483 kuruşCalculated age 50
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Sırkıntı
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Sırkıntı
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  483 kuruşCalculated age 51
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. nahiye müdürü (İstifa)
  Calculated age 51
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1893/94 (AH 1311) · 3 recorded years
Şaklava
AH entries: 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Şaklava
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 53
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 55
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1896/97 (AH 1314)
Şaklava / Telafer
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Şaklava; Telafer
1. Şaklava
  Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 56
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telafer
  Nahiye Müdürü
  450 kuruşCalculated age 56
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
12
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Telafer
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Telafer
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  450 kuruşCalculated age 57
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. nahiye müdürü (Nakil)
  Calculated age 57
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
13
1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 2 recorded years
Sultaniye
AH entries: 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Sultaniye
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  583 kuruşCalculated age 59
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nahiye Müdürü
  583 kuruşCalculated age 60
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
14
1901/02 (AH 1319)
Sultaniye / Keyl
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Sultaniye; Keyl
1. Sultaniye
  Nahiye Müdürü
  583 kuruşCalculated age 61
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Keyl
  Nahiye Müdürü
  540 kuruşCalculated age 61
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
15
1902/03 (AH 1320)
Keyl / Balik
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Keyl; Balik
1. Keyl
  Nahiye Müdürü
  540 kuruşCalculated age 62
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Balik
  Nahiye Müdürü
  432 kuruşCalculated age 62
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
16
1903/04 (AH 1321)
Balik
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Balik
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  432 kuruşCalculated age 63
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. nahiye müdürü (Nakil)
  Calculated age 63
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
17
1904/05 (AH 1322)
Beradost
Not yet located on the map: Beradost
1. nahiye müdürü (İstifa)
  Calculated age 64
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]

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.

Nahiye Müdürü · Beradost · Undated · 432 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1879/80 (AH 1297)	560	400	180 to 1,800	64.6%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	560	400	160 to 1,500	67.1%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	400	400	150 to 1,500	46.6%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	400	400	150 to 1,400	46.9%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	400	400	150 to 1,400	46.1%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	483	400	150 to 1,500	59.8%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	483	400	150 to 1,500	58.0%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	483	400	150 to 1,500	57.2%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	483	400	150 to 1,500	54.3%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	483	400	135 to 1,500	55.4%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	483	400	130 to 1,500	56.0%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	483	400	125 to 1,500	55.9%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	483	400	140 to 1,600	56.1%	1927
1893/94 (AH 1311)	750	400	140 to 1,400	75.1%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	750	400	140 to 1,500	74.6%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	750	400	140 to 1,500	74.1%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	750	450	150 to 1,575	73.2%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	450	400	140 to 1,425	53.2%	1891
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	583	400	140 to 1,440	67.3%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	583	400	140 to 1,500	67.7%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	583	400	150 to 1,520	66.4%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	540	400	150 to 1,500	63.6%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	432	405	150 to 1,450	50.5%	1578

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Karsındı7
1884 to 1891 (AH 1302 to 1308)
Çeç4
1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
Şaklava4
1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
Sultaniye3
1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)
Asakir-i muavene-i sultaniye 1. alay 1. tabur2
1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
Balik2
1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)

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

Karsındı483
Çeç400
Şaklava750
Sultaniye583
Balik432
Katrin (Katerini)560

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

Nahiye Müdürü23
1879 to 1904 (AH 1297 to 1321)
sağ kolağası2
1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)

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

Drama55 other officialsİsmail Kamil Efendi born 1840/41 (AH 1256); highest salary 1,400 kuruş
1877/78 (AH 1294)160 other officialsOsman Nuri Efendi first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294); highest salary 1,200 kuruş
Nahiye Muduru108 other officialsMehmet Sabri Bey 20 shared years; highest salary 720 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; medrese^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · medresede tasavvurat ve tasdikata kadar okumuş^[source]
Bulgarian · biraz^[source]
Greek · bir mikdar^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbet^[source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dramalı devlet adamları
HÜSEYİN ZEYNO · 2026 · Pages 90, 91, 92, 93, 94
BOA. DH. SAİDd., 42-407; 173 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 42-407.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 26 dated AH years

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The life

Life and career

Birth

First work as recorded

sağ kolağası (İnfisal)

nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)

nahiye müdürü (İstifa)

nahiye müdürü (Nakil)