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Demiryan Zare Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Bursa · Dated entries 1862 to 1897 (AH 1279 to 1314)

Languages Armenian, French, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference 66/219; 435

Follow 11 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.

1BursaTiflisPazar (Atina)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Bursa

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. tahrirat-ı hariciye evrak kalemi (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 19

  3. 3

    1863/64 (AH 1280) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1280, 1281. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. tahrirat-ı hariciye evrak kalemi (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 20

    2. kalem-i mezkûr mukayid-i evvelliği

      250 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Tiflis şehri / Tiflis

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tiflis şehri

    1. Tiflis şehri

      Career entry

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. Tiflis

      şehri vekaleti (ilâveten)

      Calculated age 24

  5. 5

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. fahri şehbenderi vekaletnâme

      Calculated age 27

    2. fahri şehbenderi vekaletnâme

      Calculated age 31

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Place not recorded / Mahum Kale Romanya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Mahum Kale Romanya

    1. Place not recorded

      fahri şehbenderi vekaletnâme

      Calculated age 32

    2. Mahum Kale Romanya

      Mahum Kale şehbenderliği

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

  7. 7

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Edirne şehri

    Not yet located on the map: Edirne şehri

    1. vekalet

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 44

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Eğriboz şehri şehbenderliği

      6,000 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. Eğriboz şehri şehbenderliği

      Calculated age 51

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Place not recorded / Pazar (Atina)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Eğriboz şehri şehbenderliği

      Calculated age 52

    2. Pazar (Atina)

      Atina sefareti seniyyesi ikinci kitâbeti

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 52

  10. 10

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Pazar (Atina)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Atina sefareti seniyyesi ikinci kitâbeti

      1,900 kuruşCalculated age 53

    2. Azil

      Calculated age 53

  11. 11

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Eğriboz

    Not yet located on the map: Eğriboz

    1. Eğriboz şehbenderliği

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 54

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.

The career, year by year

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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. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  2. Edirne şehri1
    1886/87 (AH 1304)
  3. Eğriboz1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)
  4. Mahum Kale Romanya1
    1875/76 (AH 1292)
  5. 1867/68 (AH 1284)
  6. Tiflis şehri1
    1867/68 (AH 1284)

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. Edirne şehri1,000
  2. Eğriboz1,500
  3. Mahum Kale Romanya1,000
  4. Tiflis şehri1,200

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 1895 (AH 1307 to 1312)
  2. 1870 to 1876 (AH 1287 to 1292)
  3. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  4. 1862 to 1864 (AH 1279 to 1280)
  5. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  6. 1864/65 (AH 1281)

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 Muallim-i mahsusdan tahsil [source]

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 Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 393,394,395,396

    66/219; 435

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 19 dated years

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