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Mehmed Efendi

Born 1835/36 (AH 1251) · Malatya · Dated entries 1882 to 1888 (AH 1300 to 1305)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1882/83 (AH 1300): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 280 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 280 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 280 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 280 kuruş1886/87 (AH 1304): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 280 kuruş1886/87 (AH 1304): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 310 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305): Tulumba Müdür Muavini (Nakil), Fatih, İstanbul1887/88 (AH 1305): Tulumba Müdür Muavini, Fatih, İstanbul, 310 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305): Tulumba Müdürü, Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul, 560 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305): Tulumba Müdürü (Nakil), Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul1887/88 (AH 1305): Tulumba Müdürü, Humbarahane, İstanbul, 560 kuruşAH 1300AH 1305
Places and reading notes
  • Fatih, İstanbul
  • Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul
  • Humbarahane, İstanbul

6 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

1MalatyaIstanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Malatya

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.

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

  1. 1

    1835/36 (AH 1251)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Fatih, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Fatih, İstanbul

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 49

    2. Fatih, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      280 kuruşCalculated age 49

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 4 recorded years

    Fatih, İstanbul

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Fatih, İstanbul

    1. Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      280 kuruşCalculated age 50

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      280 kuruşCalculated age 51

      Continuing service as described

    3. Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      280 kuruşCalculated age 52

      Continuing service as described

    4. Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      280 kuruşCalculated age 53

      Continuing service as described

    5. Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      310 kuruşCalculated age 53

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Fatih, İstanbul / Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul / Humbarahane, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Fatih, İstanbul; Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul; Humbarahane, İstanbul

    1. Fatih, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdür Muavini (Nakil)

      Calculated age 54

      Recorded service ending

    2. Fatih, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdür Muavini

      310 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    3. Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdürü

      560 kuruşCalculated age 54

    4. Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdürü (Nakil)

      Calculated age 54

      Recorded service ending

    5. Humbarahane, İstanbul

      Tulumba Müdürü

      560 kuruşCalculated age 54

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

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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.

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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
1882/83 (AH 1300)280400150 to 1,40026.8%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)280400150 to 1,40027.5%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)280400150 to 1,50027.1%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)280400150 to 1,50027.0%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)310400150 to 1,50038.2%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)560400150 to 1,50063.7%1762

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02805601882/83AH 13001885/86AH 13031887/88AH 13051882/83 (AH 1300) · 280 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301) · 280 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 280 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · 280 kuruş1886/87 (AH 1304) · 280 kuruş1886/87 (AH 1304) · 310 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305) · 310 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305) · 560 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305) · 560 kuruş

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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. Fatih, İstanbul6
    1882 to 1888 (AH 1300 to 1305)
  2. Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)
  3. Humbarahane, İstanbul1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)

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. Fatih, İstanbul280 to 310
  2. Beyoğlu Kışlası, İstanbul560
  3. Humbarahane, İstanbul560

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. 1882 to 1888 (AH 1300 to 1305)
  2. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

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 Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Malatya [source]
Birth year
1835/36 (AH 1251) [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
az miktarda [source]
Persian
az miktarda [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
49 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
İstanbul [source]
First-salary field
280 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 286, 287

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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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 11 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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