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Mehmed Cevdet Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1885 to 1911 (AH 1303 to 1328)

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00105_00245

The career, year by year

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

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.

1ÇemişgezekCarsancakŞanlıurfa (Urfa)Arapgir
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Vergi kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Dersim

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Vergi kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Meclis-i idare kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Dersim / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim; Location not recorded

    1. Dersim

      Meclis-i idare kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 17

  5. 5

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Carsancak / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Carsancak

      Reji muhafaza memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 19

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 19

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years

    Dersim

    AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim

    1. Ziraat Bankası şubesi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

    2. Ziraat Bankası şubesi katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Dersim / Place not recorded / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dersim; Location not recorded

    1. Dersim

      Ziraat Bankası şubesi katibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 22

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Keban Madeni

    Not yet located on the map: Keban Madeni

    1. Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 24

  9. 9

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Keban Madeni / Place not recorded / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Keban Madeni; Location not recorded

    1. Keban Madeni

      Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Çemişgezek

      Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 12 recorded years

    Çemişgezek

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Çemişgezek / Place not recorded / Şanlıurfa (Urfa)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Çemişgezek

      Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Şanlıurfa (Urfa)

      Ziraat Bankası şubesi memur vekili

      Calculated age 38

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded / Şanlıurfa (Urfa)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Ziraat Bankası müfettiş muavini

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 39

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Place not recorded / Arapgir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Ziraat Bankası müfettiş muavini

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Arapgir

      Ziraat Bankası sandığı memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 40

3 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
1889/90 (AH 1307)200400130 to 1,50015.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)250400125 to 1,50021.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)400400140 to 1,42545.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)400400144 to 1,40044.3%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)400400140 to 1,44044.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)400400140 to 1,50045.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)400400150 to 1,52043.9%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)400400150 to 1,50044.4%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)400405150 to 1,45043.1%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)400400135 to 1,50042.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)400430125 to 1,50041.3%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)400450150 to 1,52541.1%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)400460135 to 1,61540.8%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)1,000400150 to 2,00075.9%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,000600200 to 2,00068.9%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)1,000500200 to 2,00068.0%732

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. 1892 to 1909 (AH 1310 to 1326)
  2. Dersim6
    1885 to 1893 (AH 1303 to 1310)
  3. Keban Madeni2
    1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  4. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  5. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
  6. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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. Çemişgezek60 to 400
  2. Dersim250
  3. Keban Madeni400

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. 1894 to 1909 (AH 1312 to 1326)
  2. 1887 to 1910 (AH 1305 to 1327)
  3. 1908 to 1911 (AH 1326 to 1328)
  4. 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
  5. 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)
  6. 1885 to 1887 (AH 1303 to 1304)

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 ve rüşdiye mektepleri; Dersim Rüşdiyesi [source]

Qualification Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi alamadı [1]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 288, 289, 290, 291

    372 DH_SAİDd_____00105_00245

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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 · 24 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 41 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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