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Şintillizâde Mehmed Said Efendi

Born 1852/53 (AH 1269) · Harput · Dated entries 1874 to 1907 (AH 1291 to 1324)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 18-114

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 13 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.

1HarputAsirBajil (Bacil)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Bozkır
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Harput

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.

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

  1. 1

    1852/53 (AH 1269)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Yemen

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yemen

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Vilayet muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Yemen / İbha

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yemen; İbha

    1. Yemen

      Vilayet muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. İbha

      Mal Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    İbha

    Not yet located on the map: İbha

    1. Mal Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    İbha / Asir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İbha

    1. İbha

      Mal Müdürü

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Asir

      Sancak muhasebesi varidat mukayyidi

      2,150 kuruşCalculated age 25

  6. 6

    1878 (AH 1295) · 2 recorded years

    Asir

    AH entries: 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sancak muhasebesi varidat mukayyidi

      2,150 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aşar Müdürü

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 2 recorded years

    Cebel

    AH entries: 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cebel

    1. Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Kaymakam (İstifa)

      Calculated age 34

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Bajil (Bacil)

    1. Kaymakam

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 41

  9. 9

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Bajil (Bacil) / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bajil (Bacil)

      Kaymakam

      1,550 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Kaymakamlıkta izin

      Calculated age 42

  10. 10

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Köprü

    Not yet located on the map: Köprü

    1. Kaymakam

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 43

  11. 11

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years

    Vakfıkebir

    AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Vakfıkebir

    1. Kaymakam

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Kaymakam

      900 kuruşCalculated age 45

  12. 12

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Vakfıkebir

    Not yet located on the map: Vakfıkebir

    1. Kaymakam (Azil)

      Calculated age 53

  13. 13

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Bozkır

    1. Kaymakam

      900 kuruşCalculated age 55

6 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

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
1875/76 (AH 1292)2,000450150 to 2,00089.4%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)2,000420150 to 2,00090.0%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)2,150450150 to 1,80092.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)2,150450150 to 2,00092.0%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)2,150400150 to 2,00091.2%1328
1884/85 (AH 1302)2,500400150 to 1,50095.1%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)2,500400150 to 1,50095.0%1787
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,750400135 to 1,50091.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,550400140 to 1,40091.8%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,250400140 to 1,50086.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,000400140 to 1,50080.4%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)900450150 to 1,57578.0%2119
1906/07 (AH 1324)900450150 to 1,52575.0%1371

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. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  2. İbha3
    1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  3. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  4. Cebel2
    1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  5. Vakfıkebir2
    1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  6. Yemen2
    1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)

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. Asir1,750 to 2,150
  2. İbha2,000
  3. Bajil (Bacil)1,550 to 1,750
  4. Cebel2,500
  5. Vakfıkebir900 to 1,000

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. 1884 to 1907 (AH 1302 to 1324)
  2. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  3. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  4. 1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)
  5. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  6. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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 Mekâtib-i idadiye [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 ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308

    BOA. DH. SAİD 18-114

Read the original source accounts · 29 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 · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 23 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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