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Mehmet Raşid Bey

Born 1846/47 (AH 1263) · Söke · Dated entries 1862 to 1880 (AH 1279 to 1297)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 00005/00167

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

1SökeIzmir (İzmir)Aydın
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Söke

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

    1846/47 (AH 1263)

    Söke

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Izmir (İzmir)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. İzmir Eyalet Meclisi Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1863/64 (AH 1280) · 16 recorded years

    Izmir (İzmir)

    AH entries: 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İzmir Eyalet Meclisi Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Temyiz Meclisi müstantiki

      750 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    All 21 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Izmir (İzmir) / Aydın

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Izmir (İzmir)

      Temyiz Meclisi müstantiki

      750 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aydın

      Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi aza mülazımı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Aydın

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi Ceza Dairesi aza mülazımı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet Mahkemesi mukavelat muharriri

      500 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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)600475150 to 3,00060.5%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)600400150 to 2,25063.2%609
1873/74 (AH 1290)1,100405130 to 2,20079.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)1,100450150 to 1,80081.8%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)1,100450150 to 2,00080.6%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)750420150 to 2,00070.6%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)750450150 to 1,80070.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)750450150 to 2,00071.5%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)750400150 to 2,00070.5%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)500400180 to 1,80057.9%1534

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. 1862 to 1879 (AH 1279 to 1296)
  2. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)

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. Izmir (İzmir)600 to 1,100
  2. Aydın300 to 500

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. 1869 to 1879 (AH 1286 to 1296)
  2. 1864 to 1869 (AH 1281 to 1285)
  3. 1873 to 1876 (AH 1290 to 1292)
  4. 1862 to 1865 (AH 1279 to 1281)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1868 to 1870 (AH 1285 to 1286)

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; Rüştiye şehadetnamesi; zayi olmuş [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; İzmir Rüştiyesi [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)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sökeli devlet adamları

    MAŞİDE KAFALI · 2020 · Pages 43, 44

    44 BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 00005/00167.

Read the original source accounts · 27 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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 27 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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