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Civan Efendi

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Bursa · Dated entries 1884 to 1904 (AH 1302 to 1321)

Archival reference 191/194; 194

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.

1BursaMudanya
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. mezkûr gümrük kolculuğu

      240 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. mezkûr gümrük kolculuğu

      240 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Place not recorded / Mudanya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      mezkûr gümrük kolculuğu

      240 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Mudanya

      Mudanya kitâbeti

      400 kuruşCalculated age 33

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Açığa Çıkarıldı

      Calculated age 36

  5. 5

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. damga me’muru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. damga me’muru

      550 kuruşCalculated age 48

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

6 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.

The career, year by year

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Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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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. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1899 to 1904 (AH 1317 to 1321)
  2. 1884 to 1889 (AH 1302 to 1306)
  3. 1891/92 (AH 1309)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

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 Bursa mekteb-i ibtidâîsi [source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 107,108

    191/194; 194

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 11 dated years

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