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MEHMET TEVFİK EFENDİ

Born 1854/55 (AH 1271) · Akhisar · Dated entries 1874 to 1909 (AH 1291 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

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

Follow 14 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.

CumaTiberias (Taberiye)Gharyan (Garyan)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 14 · Akhisar

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.

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

  1. 1

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Akhisar

    Not yet located on the map: Akhisar

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mekteb-i Fünun-ı Mülkiye öğrencisi

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

    1. 4

      1879/80 (AH 1297) · 7 recorded years

      Hoşalay

      AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

      Within-year entry order unresolved

      Not yet located on the map: Hoşalay

        All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

      1. 5

        1887/88 (AH 1305) · 4 recorded years

        Cuma

        AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

        Within-year entry order unresolved

          All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

        1. 6

          1891/92 (AH 1309)

          Hazze'l-İkrar

          Not yet located on the map: Hazze'l-İkrar

            All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

          1. 7

            1893/94 (AH 1311)

            Akar

            Within-year entry order unresolved

            Not yet located on the map: Akar

              All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

            1. 8

              1894/95 (AH 1312)

              Tiberias (Taberiye)

                All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

              1. 9

                1896/97 (AH 1314)

                Salat

                Within-year entry order unresolved

                Not yet located on the map: Salat

                  All 2 recorded entries in this stage →

                1. 10

                  1899/1900 (AH 1317)

                  Re'sül-ayn

                  Not yet located on the map: Re'sül-ayn

                    All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

                  1. 11

                    1900/01 (AH 1318)

                    Gharyan (Garyan)

                      All 1 recorded entry in this stage →

                    1. 12

                      1902/03 (AH 1320)

                      Gharyan (Garyan) / Cebel-i Garbi

                      Within-year entry order unresolved

                      Not yet located on the map: Cebel-i Garbi

                        All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

                      1. 13

                        1903/04 (AH 1321) · 5 recorded years

                        Gharyan (Garyan)

                        AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

                        Within-year entry order unresolved

                          All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

                        1. 14

                          1908/09 (AH 1326)

                          Place not recorded

                          Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

                          1. Mazuliyet

                            750 kuruşCalculated age 55

                        7 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.

                        Read all 7 undated entries and their source evidence →

                        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
                        1879/80 (AH 1297)540400180 to 1,80063.9%1534
                        1880/81 (AH 1298)400400160 to 1,50047.0%1448
                        1881/82 (AH 1299)400400150 to 1,50046.6%1489
                        1882/83 (AH 1300)400400150 to 1,40046.9%1655
                        1883/84 (AH 1301)400400150 to 1,40046.1%1720
                        1884/85 (AH 1302)400400150 to 1,50045.1%1748
                        1885/86 (AH 1303)400400150 to 1,50044.7%1787
                        1887/88 (AH 1305)1,250400150 to 1,50085.0%1762
                        1888/89 (AH 1306)1,250400135 to 1,50085.2%1797
                        1889/90 (AH 1307)1,250400130 to 1,50086.6%1874
                        1890/91 (AH 1308)1,250400125 to 1,50085.3%1896
                        1891/92 (AH 1309)1,750400140 to 1,60090.6%1927
                        1893/94 (AH 1311)700400140 to 1,40073.4%1929
                        1894/95 (AH 1312)1,750400140 to 1,50091.9%2004
                        1896/97 (AH 1314)1,750450150 to 1,57590.8%2119
                        1900/01 (AH 1318)2,250400140 to 1,50094.6%1761
                        1902/03 (AH 1320)2,250400150 to 1,50095.0%1627
                        1903/04 (AH 1321)2,250405150 to 1,45094.8%1578
                        1904/05 (AH 1322)2,250400135 to 1,50094.3%1493
                        1905/06 (AH 1323)2,250430125 to 1,50094.7%1423
                        1906/07 (AH 1324)2,250450150 to 1,52594.2%1371
                        1907/08 (AH 1325)2,250460135 to 1,61593.6%1290
                        1908/09 (AH 1326)750400150 to 2,00069.0%1232

                        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. 1900 to 1908 (AH 1318 to 1325)
                        2. Hoşalay7
                          1879 to 1886 (AH 1297 to 1303)
                        3. 1887 to 1891 (AH 1305 to 1308)
                        4. Akar1
                          1893/94 (AH 1311)
                        5. Cebel-i Garbi1
                          1902/03 (AH 1320)
                        6. Hazze'l-İkrar1
                          1891/92 (AH 1309)

                        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. Hoşalay400 to 540
                        2. Cuma1,250
                        3. Akar700
                        4. Cebel-i Garbi900
                        5. Hazze'l-İkrar1,750

                        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. 1887 to 1908 (AH 1305 to 1325)
                        2. 1879 to 1886 (AH 1297 to 1303)
                        3. 1890 to 1908 (AH 1308 to 1325)
                        4. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
                        5. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
                        6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

                        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; Mülkiye şehadetnamesi; üçüncü, ikinci ve birinci sınıf kaymakamlık intihabnameleri [1]

                        Schooling Sıbyan ve rüştiye mektepleri; Mekteb-i Fünun-ı Mülkiye [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 Akhisarlı devlet adamları

                          MELİHA AKDOĞAN · 2020 · Pages 53, 54, 55, 56, 57

                        Read the original source accounts · 44 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 · 26 dated AH years

                        Annual salary study and register readings

                        The separate annual salary reference account has 35 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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