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HALİL ZARİF EFENDİ (DH. SAID 55/105)

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Çorum · Dated entries 1882 to 1891 (AH 1300 to 1308)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAID 55/105

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1882/83 (AH 1300): Şeriyye mahkemesi görevlisi, Smolyan (Ahiçelebi)1889/90 (AH 1307): Şeriyye mahkemesi yazı işleri görevlisi, Smolyan (Ahiçelebi)1890/91 (AH 1308): Medrese görevlisi, Kalenderhane MedresesiAH 1300AH 1308
Places and reading notes
  • Smolyan (Ahiçelebi)
  • Kalenderhane Medresesi

3 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

1ÇorumSmolyan (Ahiçelebi)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Çorum

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Çorum

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Smolyan (Ahiçelebi)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 24

    2. Şeriyye mahkemesi görevlisi

      Calculated age 24

  3. 3

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Smolyan (Ahiçelebi)

    1. Şeriyye mahkemesi yazı işleri görevlisi

      Calculated age 31

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Kalenderhane Medresesi

    Not yet located on the map: Kalenderhane Medresesi

    1. Medrese görevlisi

      Calculated age 32

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

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1882 to 1890 (AH 1300 to 1307)
  2. Kalenderhane Medresesi1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)

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

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  2. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  3. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Diploma; Arapça icazetnamesi; nesih hattına muktedir [1]

Schooling Çorum sıbyan mektebi ve rüştiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Çorum [source]
Birth year
1859/60 (AH 1276) [source]
Archive references
DH. SAID 55/105 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Persian
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Diploma; Arapça icazetnamesi; nesih hattına muktedir [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Çorum sıbyan mektebi ve rüştiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
24 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Ahiçelebi [source]Ahi Çelebi [1]
First work year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Çorumlu devlet memurları (1879-1909)

    HAYRETTİN ÖRS · 2019 · Pages 79, 80

    DH. SAID 55/105

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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 · 3 dated years

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