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MUHAMMED FEHMİ EFENDİ

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1879 to 1885 (AH 1297 to 1302)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD00011_00030

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1879/80 (AH 1297): mülazım (belediye), Bağdat Belediye Dairesi1880/81 (AH 1298): mülazım (belediye), Bağdat Belediye Dairesi1881/82 (AH 1299): mülazım (belediye), Bağdat Belediye Dairesi1881/82 (AH 1299): mülazım (belediye) (Görevin sona ermesi), Bağdat Belediye Dairesi1881/82 (AH 1299): mukataa kol muharriri, Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye), 250 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299): mukataa kol muharriri (İnfisal), Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)1882/83 (AH 1300): ihtisab kâtibi, aynı liva (sancak), 250 kuruş1882/83 (AH 1300): ihtisab kâtibi (İnfisal), aynı liva (sancak)1884/85 (AH 1302): bidayet mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi, Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi, 225 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302): bidayet mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi (Nakil), Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi1884/85 (AH 1302): müstantık muavini, Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi, 300 kuruşAH 1297AH 1300AH 1302
Places and reading notes
  • Bağdat Belediye Dairesi
  • Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)
  • aynı liva (sancak)
  • Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi

5 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 6 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. mülazım (belediye)

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

    Not yet located on the map: Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

    1. mülazım (belediye)

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Bağdat Belediye Dairesi / Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bağdat Belediye Dairesi; Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)

    1. Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

      mülazım (belediye)

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bağdat Belediye Dairesi

      mülazım (belediye) (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

    3. Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)

      mukataa kol muharriri

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

    4. Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)

      mukataa kol muharriri (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    aynı liva (sancak)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: aynı liva (sancak)

    1. ihtisab kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. ihtisab kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 23

      Recorded service ending

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi

    1. bidayet mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. bidayet mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi (Nakil)

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

    3. müstantık muavini

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

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
1881/82 (AH 1299)250400150 to 1,50020.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)250400150 to 1,40019.4%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01503001881/82AH 12991884/85AH 13021881/82 (AH 1299) · 250 kuruş1882/83 (AH 1300) · 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 225 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 300 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. Bağdat Belediye Dairesi3
    1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  2. aynı liva (sancak)1
    1882/83 (AH 1300)
  3. Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)
  4. Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)

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. aynı liva (sancak)250
  2. Habise mukataası (arazi-i seniye)250
  3. Hay kazası bidayet mahkemesi225 to 300

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. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  2. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
  3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. 1884/85 (AH 1302)

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 Kerkük Rüşdiyesi [source]

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kerkük [source]
Birth province
Musul [source]
Birth year
1860/61 (AH 1277) [source]
Archive references
DH_SAİD00011_00030 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]
Education detail
rüşdiye, ekmal-i tahsil ile şahadetname (sonradan zayi) [source]
Education
Kerkük Rüşdiyesi [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
20 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Bağdat Belediye Dairesi [source]
First work year
1879/80 (AH 1297) [source]
Apprenticeship
2 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 43, 44

    44 DH_SAİD00011_00030

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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