Silm Sami Efendi
Silm Sami Efendi was born in Podgorice in AH 1301. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at rusdiye mektebi. First work is recorded in Iskodra in AH 1322 (21 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1326 with posta memuru in Iskodra (200 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1301
- AH 1322Birth-year difference: 21 AH years
- AH 1326Birth-year difference: 25 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.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHposta memuru · iskodra · 200 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1322 in iskodra. The first-salary field is 200 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
AH 1326
One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.
Places in this record
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
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.
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.
Preparation
- School / programme
- rusdiye mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 0 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 0
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- muallim
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1301
- 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.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1322
- Place
- iskodra
- 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
2 fields contain historical terms.
- Turkish
- Kitabet (writing)
- French
- 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)
- Postal Service
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.
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Download these additional source records (JSON)
| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Postal Service | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 456 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Posta Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 422 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Posta Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 422 Recorded source-year values: 1326 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 66026 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 422 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 422 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 422 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 422 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1326 · AH source lines 66026 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1326 · AH source lines 456 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1326 · AH source lines 456 |
Read the complete annual source table
Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not recorded | posta memuru | iskodra | 200 | recovered line 1 |
- AH 1326
posta memuru
200 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 1
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
- Outside the paper sample
- 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.
| Field | Source alternatives | Display rule |
|---|---|---|
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 recovered · mulazemet · source lines 1 4 september · mulazemet · source lines 456 4 september · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 456 4 older · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 57065 | 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 (77)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1301 | recovered · dobirth source lines 1 |
| birthPlace | podgorice | recovered · birth_place source lines 1 |
| birthProvince | iskodra | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 1 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 1 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 1 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 0 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 1 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 0 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 1 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 1 |
| religion | musluman | recovered · religion source lines 1 |
| nationality | turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 1 |
| fatherJob | muallim | recovered · father_job source lines 1 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 1 |
| firstWorkPlace | iskodra | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 1 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 1 |
| birthLatitude | 42.438064 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 1 |
| birthLongitude | 19.252686 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 1 |
| name | Silm Sami Efendi | september · İsim source lines 456 |
| birthH | 1301 | september · dobirth source lines 456 |
| birthPlace | podgorice | september · birthplace source lines 456 |
| birthProvince | iskodra | september · birth_vilayet source lines 456 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 456 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 456 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 4 | september · mulazemet source lines 456 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 4 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 456 |
| qualification | 0 | september · qualification source lines 456 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 456 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 456 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 456 |
| fatherJob | muallim | september · fatherjob source lines 456 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | september · firstjob_year source lines 456 |
| firstWorkPlace | iskodra | september · firstjob_place source lines 456 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 456 |
| birthLatitude | 42.438064 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 456 |
| birthLongitude | 19.252686 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 456 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 456 |
| language:French | Kitabet | september · lang_french source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | september · lang_french2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 456 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 456 |
| name | Silm Sami Efendi | older · İsim source lines 57065 |
| birthH | 1301 | older · dobirth source lines 57065 |
| birthPlace | podgorice | older · birthplace source lines 57065 |
| birthProvince | iskodra | older · birth_vilayet source lines 57065 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 57065 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 57065 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 4 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 57065 |
| qualification | 0 | older · qualification source lines 57065 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 57065 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 57065 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 57065 |
| fatherJob | muallim | older · fatherjob source lines 57065 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | older · firstjob_year source lines 57065 |
| firstWorkPlace | iskodra | older · firstjob_place source lines 57065 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 57065 |
| birthLatitude | 42.438064 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 57065 |
| birthLongitude | 19.252686 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 57065 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 57065 |
| language:French | Kitabet | older · lang_french source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | older · lang_french2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 57065 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 57065 |
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, “Silm Sami Efendi”, archival reference 000157_0051; 99, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-1d46525d9942f245/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-1d46525d9942f245/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.