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Mehmed Aziz Efendi

Born 1824/25 (AH 1240) · Bursa kazasında Hançerli karyesi · Dated entries 1853 to 1905 (AH 1270 to 1322)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 27/48; 93

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 7 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.

Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Bursa kazasında Hançerli karyesi

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.

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

  1. 1

    1824/25 (AH 1240)

    Bursa kazasında Hançerli karyesi

    Not yet located on the map: Bursa kazasında Hançerli karyesi

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 30

    2. silk-i celil-i askeriye

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Bursa

    1. Bursa redif taburunda ikinci bölükden mülâzım-ı evvel; mülâzım-ı evvel

      Calculated age 42

  4. 4

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Bursa / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Bursa

      Bursa redif taburunda ikinci bölükden mülâzım-ı evvel; mülâzım-ı evvel

      Calculated age 43

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 43

  5. 5

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 11 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. meyve gümrüğü (Okunamadı)

      250 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. zeytun iskelesi muâmele me’muriyeti

      320 kuruşCalculated age 57

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 6 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. limon iskelesi şube memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 60

    2. limon iskelesi şube memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 65

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Vefat

      Calculated age 82

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
1870/71 (AH 1287)250400150 to 2,00021.9%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)250420.5125 to 2,37521.7%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)250450140 to 2,35023.7%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)265405130 to 2,20029.1%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)285450150 to 1,80028.0%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)285450150 to 2,00026.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)285420150 to 2,00028.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)285450150 to 1,80028.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)400450150 to 2,00042.7%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)400400150 to 2,00044.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)400400180 to 1,80044.2%1534
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
1886/87 (AH 1304)400400150 to 1,50045.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)500400150 to 1,50054.5%1762

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. 1865 to 1867 (AH 1282 to 1283)

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

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1874 to 1880 (AH 1291 to 1297)
  2. 1882 to 1888 (AH 1300 to 1305)
  3. 1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  4. 1865 to 1867 (AH 1282 to 1283)
  5. 1853/54 (AH 1270)

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.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 216

    27/48; 93

Read the original source accounts · 26 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 · 21 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 26 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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