Individual dossier

Mehmet Nazif Efendi

118-138-271Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Nazif Efendi was born in Yenipazar in AH 1288. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Yenipazar in AH 1316 (28 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 5 distinct AH years between 1320 and 1324; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Presova (200 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

5 recorded AH years · 5 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1288
  2. AH 1316Birth-year difference: 28 AH years
  3. AH 1320Birth-year difference: 32 AH years
  4. AH 1321–1323Birth-year difference: 33–35 AH years
  5. AH 1324Birth-year difference: 36 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

2 of 7

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1320

Muhabere Memuru · presova · 200 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1316 in Yenipazar. The first-salary field is 200 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1316 · 1898 labelRecorded first-work anchorYenipazar
0300600AH 1320AH 1321AH 1322AH 1323AH 1324AH 1320 · 1902 label: 200 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · presovaAH 1321 · 1903 label: 300 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · yenipazarAH 1322 · 1904 label: 300 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · yenipazarAH 1323 · 1905 label: 300 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · yenipazarAH 1324 · 1906 label: 600 kuruş / month · Muhabere Memuru · lisac

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1316 · 1898 labelRecorded first-work anchorYenipazar
yenipazar: Locality linkage; agreedyenipazarpresova: Locality linkage; agreedpresovalisac: Locality linkage; agreedlisac

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record
  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes

Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.

  1. Locality presova → yenipazar

    Salary 200 to 300 kuruş +100 (+50%)

  2. Locality yenipazar → lisac

    Salary 300 to 600 kuruş +300 (+100%)

A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
4 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Not recorded
Recorded birth year
AH 1288
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1316 · 1898 label
Place
Yenipazar
First-salary field
200 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Further biographical evidence

Source wording and status assertions

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes

These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-5e2ba3e19fa6918b. This is separate from the annual data edition and annual-record PDF.

Download these additional source records (JSON)

Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingCommunication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
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Recorded source-year values: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
source lines 35811, 35812, 35813, 35814, 35815
Recorded source-year values: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 35811, 35812, 35813, 35814, 35815
Recorded source-year values: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1321 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 61182
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 63041
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 64482
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 35811
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 35812
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 35813
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 35814
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 35815
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 35811
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 35812
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 35813
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 35814
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 35815
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 35811
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 35812
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 35813
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 35814
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 35815
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 35811
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 35812
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 35813
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 35814
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 35815
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 56570
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 59027
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 61182
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 63041
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 64482
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 34706
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 34704
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 34707
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 34703
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 34705
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 34706
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 34704
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 34707
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1323 · AH
source lines 34703
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 34705

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 4 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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FieldSource alternativesDisplay rule
qualification
1
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0
recovered · qualification · source lines 32599
1
september · qualification · source lines 34703, 34704, 34706, 34707
0
september · qualification · source lines 34705
1
older · qualification · source lines 68406, 68409, 68410, 68411
0
older · qualification · source lines 68415
All stored assertions retained. Names prefer September, then older; supplemental names fill only missing names. Other preferred attributes use recovered, then September, then older, with modal nonblank value and source-order tie break. This does not adjudicate historical truth or changes in coding.
derivedQualificationFlag
1
recovered · has_qualification · source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598
0
recovered · has_qualification · source lines 32599
All stored assertions retained. Names prefer September, then older; supplemental names fill only missing names. Other preferred attributes use recovered, then September, then older, with modal nonblank value and source-order tie break. This does not adjudicate historical truth or changes in coding.
All substantive source assertions (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1288recovered · dobirth
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birthPlaceyenipazarrecovered · birthplace
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birthPlaceyenipazarrecovered · birth_place
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
birthProvincekosovarecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
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schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
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schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
apprenticeshipYears4recovered · mulazemet
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 32599
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 32599
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
firstWorkH1316recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
firstWorkG1898recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
firstWorkPlaceYenipazarrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
firstWorkSalary200recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
birthLatitude43.14174899999994recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
birthLongitude20.516493999999987recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 32595, 32596, 32597, 32598, 32599
nameMehmet Nazif Efendiseptember · İsim
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birthH1288september · dobirth
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birthPlaceyenipazarseptember · birthplace
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birthProvincekosovaseptember · birth_vilayet
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schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
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schoolingYears7september · education_year
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apprenticeshipYears4september · mulazemet
source lines 34703, 34704, 34705, 34706, 34707
apprenticeshipYears4september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 34703, 34704, 34705, 34706, 34707
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 34703, 34704, 34706, 34707
qualification0september · qualification
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telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
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religionmuslumanseptember · religion
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nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
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firstWorkH1316september · firstjob_year
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firstWorkPlaceyenipazarseptember · firstjob_place
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firstWorkSalary200september · firstjob_wage
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derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
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nameMehmet Nazif Efendiolder · İsim
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birthH1288older · dobirth
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birthPlaceyenipazarolder · birthplace
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birthProvincekosovaolder · birth_vilayet
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schoolingYears7older · education_year
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Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Nazif Efendi”, archival reference 118-138-271, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-19fbb0ed083772ef/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-19fbb0ed083772ef/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.