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Mehmed Şakir Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Antakya · Dated entries 1878 to 1897 (AH 1296 to 1314)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:30,s.251

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.

1AntakyaIzmir (İzmir)Gelibolu
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Antakya

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

  1. 1

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Antakya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Aşar memuriyeti vekili (stajyer)

      500 kuruş

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Antakya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aşar memuriyeti vekili (stajyer)

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aşar memuriyeti vekili (stajyer) (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Lâzkiye ve Tabya(?) Mektebi

    Not yet located on the map: Lâzkiye ve Tabya(?) Mektebi

    1. Osmanlıca muallimi

      500 kuruş

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Izmir (İzmir)

    1. Evkaf müdürü (Azil)

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 9 recorded years

    Gelibolu

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Evkaf müdürü

      300 kuruş

    2. Evkaf müfettişi

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

2 entries 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
1878/79 (AH 1296)500400150 to 2,00055.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)500400180 to 1,80057.9%1534
1881/82 (AH 1299)500400150 to 1,50060.9%1489
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
1892/93 (AH 1310)500400135 to 1,50056.2%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)500400140 to 1,40055.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)500400140 to 1,50055.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)500400140 to 1,50055.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119

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. 1888 to 1897 (AH 1306 to 1314)
  2. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  3. Lâzkiye ve Tabya(?) Mektebi1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)

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. Gelibolu300 to 500
  2. Lâzkiye ve Tabya(?) Mektebi500

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. 1888 to 1897 (AH 1306 to 1314)
  2. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)

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 Antakya sıbyan mektebi; İstanbul'da tahsil [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

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 Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

    NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 203, 204

    BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:30,s.251

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 16 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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