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El-Hac Ahmet Şakir Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Silistra (Silistre) · Dated entries 1853 to 1891 (AH 1270 to 1308)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 47/337

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.

ErzurumBeirut (Beyrut)Silistra (Silistre)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Place not recorded

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.

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

  1. 1

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Meclis-i Emval-i Eytam İcmal Mukayyidi

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Meclis-i Emval Şubesi Muavini

      800 kuruş

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 2 recorded years

    Erzurum

    AH entries: 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Erzurum Mevleviyeti

      985 kuruş

    2. Erzurum Mevleviyeti (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    1. Beyrut Mevleviyeti

      1,425 kuruş

  5. 5

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Beirut (Beyrut) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Beirut (Beyrut)

      Beyrut Mevleviyeti

      1,425 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Maaş tahsisi (Tekaüt)

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

6 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 from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

This dossier has no validated link to the annual salary comparison.

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. 1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  2. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
  2. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. 1853/54 (AH 1270)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Education and personal record

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları

    KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 47

    BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 47/337; 151 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 47/337.; 152 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 47/337.

Read the original source accounts · 13 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 · 6 dated years

How to read the records

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