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Hızır Efendi

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Sılahiye · Dated entries 1882 to 1894 (AH 1300 to 1311)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.793

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

BasraAl-Qurnah (Kurna)Al-Faw (Fav)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Sılahiye

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

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Sılahiye

    Not yet located on the map: Sılahiye

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Basra / Herat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Herat

    1. Basra

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. Herat

      Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Herat / Şattü'l-Arab / Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Herat; Şattü'l-Arab

    1. Herat

      Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

      Aşar ikinci kâtibi

      320 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

    1. Aşar ikinci kâtibi

      320 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

  5. 5

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Al-Qurnah (Kurna) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

      Aşar ikinci kâtibi

      320 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 27

  6. 6

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Al-Faw (Fav) / Şattü'l-Arab

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şattü'l-Arab

    1. Al-Faw (Fav)

      Nahiye kâtibi

      135 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Şattü'l-Arab

      Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

  7. 7

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 4 recorded years

    Şattü'l-Arab

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Şattü'l-Arab

    1. Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Şattü'l-Arab / Herat / Herat havalisi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şattü'l-Arab; Herat; Herat havalisi

    1. Şattü'l-Arab

      Nahiye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Herat havalisi

      Arazi-i Seniyye İdaresi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Herat havalisi

    Not yet located on the map: Herat havalisi

    1. Arazi-i Seniyye İdaresi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Herat havalisi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Herat havalisi; Location not recorded

    1. Herat havalisi

      Arazi-i Seniyye İdaresi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Taşra Arazi-i Seniyye kâtibi

      Calculated age 35

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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. Şattü'l-Arab7
    1883 to 1892 (AH 1301 to 1309)
  2. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  3. Herat3
    1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)
  4. Herat havalisi3
    1891 to 1894 (AH 1309 to 1311)
  5. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  6. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

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. Şattü'l-Arab200
  2. Herat200
  3. Herat havalisi300

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. 1882 to 1892 (AH 1300 to 1309)
  2. 1891 to 1894 (AH 1309 to 1311)
  3. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  5. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  6. 1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 Mahalli Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Persian · Tekellüm [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 62

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.793

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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 · 12 dated years

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