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Mehmed Nâzım Efendi

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1868 to 1889 (AH 1285 to 1306)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00028_00034

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.

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

Stage 1 of 9 · Çemişgezek

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.

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

  1. 1

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. İhtisap rüsumu kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 24

  4. 4

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

    Ovacık

    AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüsumat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Rüsumat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Ovacık / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Ovacık

      Rüsumat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ovacık

      Tahrirat ve tapu kâtibi

      180 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 4 recorded years

    Ovacık

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahrirat ve tapu kâtibi

      180 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat ve tapu kâtibi

      180 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Ovacık / Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Ovacık

      Tahrirat ve tapu kâtibi

      180 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dersim

      Meclis-i idare ikinci kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

  8. 8

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 3 recorded years

    Dersim

    AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Meclis-i idare ikinci kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nüfus başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Dersim

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Nüfus memuru

      Calculated age 44

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
1868/69 (AH 1285)100475150 to 3,0005.0%505
1874/75 (AH 1291)300450150 to 1,80030.2%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)300450150 to 2,00028.5%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)180450150 to 1,80013.0%1160
1878 (AH 1295)180450150 to 2,00013.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)180400150 to 2,00011.1%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)180400180 to 1,8009.7%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)600400150 to 1,40068.1%1720

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. 1874 to 1881 (AH 1291 to 1298)
  2. Dersim5
    1880 to 1889 (AH 1298 to 1306)
  3. 1868/69 (AH 1285)

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. Ovacık180 to 300
  2. Dersim400 to 600

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. 1876 to 1881 (AH 1293 to 1298)
  2. 1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
  3. 1874 to 1877 (AH 1291 to 1293)
  4. 1869/70 (AH 1286)
  5. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  6. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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 Çemişgezek sıbyan mektebi; Harput Hacı Ali Paşa Medresesi [source]

Qualification Mukaddemât-ı ulûm-ı diniye; Arapça ve Farsça tahsili [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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 Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 208, 209

    321 DH_SAİDd_____00028_00034

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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 · 14 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 19 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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