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Dikran Efendi

Born 1854/55 (AH 1271) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1881 to 1900 (AH 1299 to 1317)

Languages French, Turkish

Follow 8 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Aleppo (Halep)Beirut (Beyrut)Latakia (Lazkiye)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 4 recorded years

    Aleppo (Halep)

    AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Aleppo (Halep) / Beirut (Beyrut)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Aleppo (Halep)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beirut (Beyrut)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 32

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Beirut (Beyrut) / Latakia (Lazkiye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Beirut (Beyrut)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Latakia (Lazkiye)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 34

  6. 6

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Latakia (Lazkiye)

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Latakia (Lazkiye) / Beirut (Beyrut)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Latakia (Lazkiye)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beirut (Beyrut)

      Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

  8. 8

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 10 recorded years

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf merkezi muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru (Azil)

      Calculated age 46

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

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Open all 19 dated years and their entries

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. 1885 to 1900 (AH 1303 to 1317)
  2. 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  3. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 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

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. 1881 to 1900 (AH 1299 to 1317)

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

Schooling Ermeni mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • French · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre İstanbul doğumlu Ermeni devlet adamları

    HARUN TUNCA · 2016 · Pages 135, 136

    DH. SAİD 84/31; 173 DH. SAİD d. nr. 58/363 s. 363; DH. SAİD d. nr. 58/363 s. 363

Read the original source accounts · 24 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 years

How to read the records

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