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Mahmud Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Silifke · Dated entries 1879 to 1906 (AH 1297 to 1323)

The career, year by year

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

Follow 10 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.

1SilifkeKirErmenek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Silifke

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.

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

  1. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Silifke

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    İç-İl sancak merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl sancak merkezi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. İç-İl Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    İç-İl sancak merkezi / Ayaş kolu, Silifke kazası / Sarıcalar / Gügerte, Büyük Tımar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl sancak merkezi; Ayaş kolu, Silifke kazası; Sarıcalar; Gügerte, Büyük Tımar

    1. İç-İl sancak merkezi

      İç-İl Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gügerte, Büyük Tımar

      Aşar muharriri

      Calculated age 21

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Bolacalı kolu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bolacalı kolu

    1. Ağnam muharriri

      Calculated age 22

    2. Ağnam muharriri (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    İç-İl

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl

    1. İç-İl Sancağı Bidayet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. İç-İl Sancağı Bidayet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 23

      Recorded service ending

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Cebel kolu / Kir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cebel kolu

    1. Cebel kolu

      Ağnam muharriri

      Calculated age 24

    2. Kir

      Aşar muharriri (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 4 recorded years

    İç-İl

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

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl

    1. İç-İl Sancağı nüfus kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. İç-İl Sancağı nüfus kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    İç-İl / İç-İl sancak merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl; İç-İl sancak merkezi

    1. İç-İl

      İç-İl Sancağı nüfus kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. İç-İl sancak merkezi

      Merkez liva orman kâtibi (Azil)

      Calculated age 29

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 9 recorded years

    İç-İl

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl

    1. Ziraat Bankası şube kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Ziraat Bankası sandık refakat memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 38

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    İç-İl / Ermenek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İç-İl

    1. İç-İl

      Ziraat Bankası sandık muhasebe kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. Ermenek

      Ziraat Bankası sandık muhasebe kâtibi vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 46

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry 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
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)250400150 to 1,50019.9%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)250400150 to 1,50019.6%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)250400150 to 1,50020.1%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)250400150 to 1,50020.9%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)400400140 to 1,40044.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)400400140 to 1,42545.2%1891
1905/06 (AH 1323)500430125 to 1,50052.7%1423

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. İç-İl16
    1882 to 1906 (AH 1300 to 1323)
  2. İç-İl sancak merkezi3
    1879 to 1889 (AH 1297 to 1306)
  3. Ayaş kolu, Silifke kazası1
    1880/81 (AH 1298)
  4. Bolacalı kolu1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. Cebel kolu1
    1883/84 (AH 1301)
  6. 1905/06 (AH 1323)

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. İç-İl250 to 500
  2. İç-İl sancak merkezi240

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. 1884 to 1889 (AH 1302 to 1306)
  2. 1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  3. 1893 to 1898 (AH 1311 to 1315)
  4. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  5. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  6. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)

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 Silifke sıbyan mektebi [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Silifkeli devlet adamları

    FATİH ALTINTAŞ · 2023 · Pages 81, 82, 83

Read the original source accounts · 40 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 · 20 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 39 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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