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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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Mehmet Kemal Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Bosna · Dated entries 1875 to 1911 (AH 1292 to 1329)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

TiflisDiyarbakırErzurumSivas
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Karahisar

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

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 13 recorded years

    Karahisar

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar

    1. Muhasebe kalemi memuru

      390 kuruş

    2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years

    Karahisar / Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar; Location not recorded

    1. Karahisar

      Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Karahisar

      Belediye reisi

      400 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Place not recorded / Tiflis

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Evkaf-ı Hümayun Deavi Kalemi mukayyidi

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tiflis

      Evkaf muhasebecisi

      1,000 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Tiflis

    1. Evkaf muhasebecisi (Azil)

  5. 5

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 2 recorded years

    Karahisar

    AH entries: 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar

    1. Belediye reisi

      500 kuruş

    2. Belediye reisi (İnfisal)

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years

    Diyarbakır

    AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    1. Evkaf muhasebecisi

      1,350 kuruş

    2. Evkaf muhasebecisi

      1,350 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Diyarbakır / Erzurum / Sivas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Diyarbakır

      Evkaf muhasebecisi

      1,350 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sivas

      Evkaf müdürü

      2,000 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Evkaf memuriyeti (İnfisal)

    2. Kadro harici maaş tahsisi (Mazuliyet)

      750 kuruş

  9. 9

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Sivas

    1. Evkaf müdürü (Azil)

3 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.

  • Tahrirat kitabetinde mülazım · Karahisar · Undated · 300 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Birth · Bosna · Year not recorded
  • First work as recorded · Karahisar · Year not recorded

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)390450150 to 2,00042.4%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)390420150 to 2,00043.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)390450150 to 1,80042.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)390450150 to 2,00042.5%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)390400150 to 2,00043.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)450400180 to 1,80053.0%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)450400160 to 1,50055.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)450400150 to 1,50055.3%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)450400150 to 1,40055.0%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
1886/87 (AH 1304)400400150 to 1,50045.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)500400150 to 1,50054.5%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)500400135 to 1,50055.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,000400130 to 1,50081.1%1874
1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)500400140 to 1,50055.5%1761
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,350450150 to 1,52587.1%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)1,350460135 to 1,61586.2%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)2,000400150 to 2,00090.0%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)750600200 to 2,00058.8%1088

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. Karahisar17
    1875 to 1901 (AH 1292 to 1318)
  2. 1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)
  3. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  5. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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. Karahisar390 to 500
  2. Erzurum1,800
  3. Sivas2,000
  4. Tiflis1,000

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. 1875 to 1880 (AH 1292 to 1297)
  3. 1889 to 1909 (AH 1307 to 1326)
  4. 1879 to 1883 (AH 1297 to 1300)
  5. 1888 to 1901 (AH 1306 to 1318)
  6. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)

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; rüşdiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · KitâbetOkuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 102, 103

Read the original source accounts · 36 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 · 24 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 →

How to read the records

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