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Born 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1889 to 1907 (AH 1307 to 1324)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00058_00047

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1889/90 (AH 1307): telgrafhane mülazımı, Altunköprü1890/91 (AH 1308): telgrafhane mülazımı, Altunköprü1891/92 (AH 1309): telgrafhane mülazımı, Altunköprü1892/93 (AH 1310): telgrafhane mülazımı, Altunköprü1892/93 (AH 1310): telgrafhane mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi), Altunköprü1892/93 (AH 1310): telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru, Kirkuk (Kerkük), 300 kuruş1897/98 (AH 1315): askerlik (kur'a) (İnfisal), place unspecified1897/98 (AH 1315): telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru, Kirkuk (Kerkük)1905/06 (AH 1323): telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru, Nasıriye1906/07 (AH 1324): telgraf ve posta merkezi sermemuru, Nasıriye, 510 kuruşAH 1307AH 1315AH 1324
Places and reading notes
  • Altunköprü
  • Kirkuk (Kerkük)
  • Nasıriye

7 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 6 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.

1Kirkuk (Kerkük)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Altunköprü telgrafhanesi / Altunköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Altunköprü telgrafhanesi; Altunköprü

    1. Altunköprü telgrafhanesi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 13

    2. Altunköprü

      telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 13

  3. 3

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years

    Altunköprü

    AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Altunköprü

    1. telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 14

      Continuing service as described

    2. telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Altunköprü / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Altunköprü

    1. Altunköprü

      telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Altunköprü

      telgrafhane mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 16

      Recorded service ending

    3. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 16

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Place not recorded / Kirkuk (Kerkük)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      askerlik (kur'a) (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 21

    2. Kirkuk (Kerkük)

      telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 21

  6. 6

    1905/06 (AH 1323) · 2 recorded years

    Nasıriye

    AH entries: 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Nasıriye

    1. telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

      Calculated age 29

    2. telgraf ve posta merkezi sermemuru

      510 kuruşCalculated age 30

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.

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
02555101892/93AH 13101899/1900AH 13171906/07AH 13241892/93 (AH 1310) · 300 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · 510 kuruş

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. Altunköprü4
    1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  2. 1892 to 1898 (AH 1310 to 1315)
  3. Nasıriye2
    1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)

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. Nasıriye510

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 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  2. 1892 to 1898 (AH 1310 to 1315)
  3. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  4. 1906/07 (AH 1324)

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 Cihan mektebi; rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kerkük [source]
Birth province
Musul [source]
Birth year
1877/78 (AH 1294) [source]
Father’s occupation
Ketebe (kâtip) [source]
Archive references
DH_SAİD,00058_00047 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Persian
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Cihan mektebi; rüşdiye mektebi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
13 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Altunköprü telgrafhanesi [source]
First work year
1889/90 (AH 1307) [source]
Apprenticeship
3 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 76, 77

    82 DH_SAİD,00058_00047; DH_SAİD,00058_00047

Read the original source accounts · 12 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 · 7 dated years

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