Mehmed Zeki Efendi
Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Harput · Dated entries 1891 to 1909 (AH 1309 to 1326)
Languages Turkish
Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 163-168
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
The life
Mehmed Zeki Efendi was born in Harput in 1863/64 (AH 1280). Schooling included Harput sıbyan mektebi; mülkiye rüşdiyesi; Hamidiye idadisi. The language repertoire included Turkish. [1]
Service began in Mamuratülaziz in 1891/92 (AH 1309). Dated career entries span 1891/92 (AH 1309) to 1908/09 (AH 1326) across 18 AH years. More than one post or place appears in 7 of those years. Place names include Mamuratülaziz, Keban, Arapgir and Dersim and 5 other named places. [1]
Monthly pay went from 300 kuruş in 1891/92 (AH 1309) to 830 kuruş in 1908/09 (AH 1326); the highest recorded monthly rate is 830 kuruş in 1908/09 (AH 1326). [1]
Life and career
Follow 13 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.
Stage 1 of 13 · Harput
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 1863/64 (AH 1280)
Harput
Birth
2 1891/92 (AH 1309)
Mamuratülaziz / Keban
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz
Mamuratülaziz
First work as recorded
Calculated age 29
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 29
3 1892/93 (AH 1310) · 3 recorded years
Keban
AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 30
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 32
4 1895/96 (AH 1313)
Keban / Arapgir
Within-year entry order unresolved
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 33
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 33
5 Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 34
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 35
Continuing service as described
6 1898/99 (AH 1316)
Arapgir / Mamuratülaziz
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantık muavini
300 kuruşCalculated age 36
Continuing service as described
Mamuratülaziz
Merkez bidayet mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi
300 kuruşCalculated age 36
7 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Mamuratülaziz
Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz
Merkez bidayet mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi
300 kuruşCalculated age 37
Continuing service as described
8 1900/01 (AH 1318)
Mamuratülaziz / Dersim
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz; Dersim
Mamuratülaziz
Merkez bidayet mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi
300 kuruşCalculated age 38
Continuing service as described
Dersim
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
540 kuruşCalculated age 38
9 1901/02 (AH 1319) · 2 recorded years
Dersim
AH entries: 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Dersim
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
540 kuruşCalculated age 39
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
540 kuruşCalculated age 40
Continuing service as described
10 1903/04 (AH 1321)
Dersim / Menteşe
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Dersim; Menteşe
Dersim
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
540 kuruşCalculated age 41
Continuing service as described
Menteşe
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
675 kuruşCalculated age 41
11 1904/05 (AH 1322) · 3 recorded years
Menteşe
AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Menteşe
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
675 kuruşCalculated age 42
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
675 kuruşCalculated age 44
Continuing service as described
12 1907/08 (AH 1325)
Menteşe / Karamürsel / Bolu
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Menteşe
Menteşe
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
675 kuruşCalculated age 45
Continuing service as described
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
700 kuruşCalculated age 45
13 1908/09 (AH 1326)
Bolu / Çankırı (Kengiri) / Trabzon
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Çankırı (Kengiri)
Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı
700 kuruşCalculated age 46
Continuing service as described
Merkez bidayet mahkemesi ikinci müstantığı
830 kuruşCalculated age 46
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.
- Bidayet mahkemesi müstantığı · Menteşe · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
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
Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.
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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
| AH year | Official rate | Sample median | Sample p10 to p90 | Paid less | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891/92 (AH 1309) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,600 | 28.5% | 1927 |
| 1892/93 (AH 1310) | 300 | 400 | 135 to 1,500 | 28.0% | 1935 |
| 1893/94 (AH 1311) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,400 | 27.9% | 1929 |
| 1894/95 (AH 1312) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 28.5% | 2004 |
| 1895/96 (AH 1313) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 27.1% | 1981 |
| 1896/97 (AH 1314) | 300 | 450 | 150 to 1,575 | 26.4% | 2119 |
| 1897/98 (AH 1315) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,425 | 28.1% | 1891 |
| 1898/99 (AH 1316) | 300 | 400 | 144 to 1,400 | 27.7% | 1844 |
| 1899/1900 (AH 1317) | 300 | 400 | 140 to 1,440 | 29.1% | 1821 |
| 1900/01 (AH 1318) | 540 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 63.8% | 1761 |
| 1901/02 (AH 1319) | 540 | 400 | 150 to 1,520 | 62.0% | 1666 |
| 1902/03 (AH 1320) | 540 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 63.6% | 1627 |
| 1903/04 (AH 1321) | 675 | 405 | 150 to 1,450 | 71.5% | 1578 |
| 1904/05 (AH 1322) | 675 | 400 | 135 to 1,500 | 71.4% | 1493 |
| 1905/06 (AH 1323) | 675 | 430 | 125 to 1,500 | 69.3% | 1423 |
| 1906/07 (AH 1324) | 675 | 450 | 150 to 1,525 | 68.1% | 1371 |
| 1907/08 (AH 1325) | 700 | 460 | 135 to 1,615 | 66.8% | 1290 |
| 1908/09 (AH 1326) | 830 | 400 | 150 to 2,000 | 73.0% | 1232 |
Career patterns and pay
Recorded pay over the career
Kuruş · dated amountsSelect 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 entriesThe 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 rateSix places with the most recorded career years. 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 titleThe 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
- Harput168 other officialsAgob Efendi born 1863/64 (AH 1280); highest salary 40 kuruş
- Keban4 other officialsAbdullah Vehbi Efendi 4 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
- 1891/92 (AH 1309)169 other officialsHASAN FEHMİ EFENDİ first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309); highest salary 750 kuruş
Education and personal record
Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Mektep şehadetnameleri; heyet-i mümeyyizeden âliyü'l-âlâ dereceli şehadetname [1]
Schooling Harput sıbyan mektebi; mülkiye rüşdiyesi; Hamidiye idadisi [source]
Language skills and historical terms
Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.
- Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources
Sources and evidence
- Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları
ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 109, 110, 111
BOA. DH. SAİD 163-168
Read the original source accounts · 29 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 · 18 dated AH years
Annual salary study and register readings
The separate annual salary reference account has 28 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.