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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmed Bahri Efendi

Born 1872/73 (AH 1289) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1886 to 1894 (AH 1304 to 1311)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1886/87 (AH 1304): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1887/88 (AH 1305): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1888/89 (AH 1306): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1889/90 (AH 1307): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1890/91 (AH 1308): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1891/92 (AH 1309): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1892/93 (AH 1310): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1893/94 (AH 1311): Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı, Shkodër (İşkodra)1893/94 (AH 1311): Rüsûmat İdaresi kâtibi, Shëngjin (Şengin), 200 kuruşAH 1304AH 1311
Places and reading notes
  • Shkodër (İşkodra)
  • Shëngjin (Şengin)

8 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.

1Shkodër (İşkodra)Shëngjin (Şengin)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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.

  1. 1

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 6 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    3. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    4. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    5. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    6. Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Shkodër (İşkodra) / Shëngjin (Şengin)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Rüsûmat Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Shëngjin (Şengin)

      Rüsûmat İdaresi kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 22

2 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
1893/94 (AH 1311)200400140 to 1,40014.0%1929

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01002001893/94AH 13111893/94 (AH 1311) · 200 kuruş

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. 1886 to 1894 (AH 1304 to 1311)
  2. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1886 to 1894 (AH 1304 to 1311)
  2. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

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; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling İşkodra Sıbyan Mektebi; İşkodra Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Personal details

Birthplace
İşkodra [source]
Birth province
İşkodra [source]
Birth year
1872/73 (AH 1289) [source]
Father’s occupation
Esnaf; dalı belirtilmemiş [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okuryazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
İşkodra Sıbyan Mektebi; İşkodra Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
İşkodra [source]
First work year
1886/87 (AH 1304) [source]
Apprenticeship
6.9 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 214

Read the original source accounts · 11 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 · 8 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 9 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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