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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
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Hâfız Mehmed Refik Efendi

Born 1878/79 (AH 1296) · Hâlmûke · Dated entries 1898 to 1906 (AH 1316 to 1323)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00117_00242

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 5 · Hâlmûke

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

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Hâlmûke

    Not yet located on the map: Hâlmûke

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Evkaf-ı Hümayun Nezareti Masarıfat İdaresi vilayet kısmı mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Evkaf-ı Hümayun Nezareti Masarıfat İdaresi vilayet kısmı mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evkaf-ı Hümayun Nezareti Masarıfat İdaresi vilayet kısmı mülazımı

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Place not recorded / Dersim / Yılan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Dersim; Yılan

    1. Place not recorded

      Evkaf-ı Hümayun Nezareti Masarıfat İdaresi vilayet kısmı mülazımı

      Calculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yılan

      Evkaf müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Yılan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yılan

    1. Evkaf müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evkaf müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 27

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. Yılan2
    1904 to 1906 (AH 1322 to 1323)
  2. Dersim1
    1904/05 (AH 1322)

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. Yılan450
  2. Dersim300

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. 1898 to 1905 (AH 1316 to 1322)
  2. 1904 to 1906 (AH 1322 to 1323)

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 Çemişgezek ibtidai mektebi; Kayseri'de özel öğretmen [source]

Qualification Hâfız [1]

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 Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 312, 313, 314

    DH_SAİDd_____00117_00242; 383 DH_SAİDd_____00117_00242

Read the original source accounts · 14 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 · 8 dated years

How to read the records

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