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Eşref Efendi

Born 1861/62 (AH 1278) · Bosna · Dated entries 1879 to 1908 (AH 1297 to 1325)

The career, year by year

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

Follow 8 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.

Istanbul (Dersaadet)ÜsküdarBeyoğlu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Bosna

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

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Bosna

    Not yet located on the map: Bosna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 17 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Polis, 3. bölük 5. çavuşluk 2. neferliği

      300 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    All 40 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Üsküdar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Süvari polisi 2. çavuşluğu

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

    Üsküdar

    AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Süvari 3. sınıf polis komiserliği

      Calculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Üsküdar / Beyoğlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Üsküdar

      Süvari 3. sınıf polis komiserliği

      540 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 6 recorded years

    Beyoğlu

    AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Süvari 3. sınıf polis komiserliği

      540 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Beyoğlu / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Beyoğlu

      Süvari 2. sınıf polis komiserliği

      Calculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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. 1879 to 1908 (AH 1297 to 1325)
  2. 1900 to 1908 (AH 1318 to 1325)
  3. 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318)

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. 1884 to 1897 (AH 1302 to 1314)
  2. 1884 to 1897 (AH 1302 to 1314)
  3. 1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)
  4. 1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)
  5. 1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)
  6. 1879 to 1883 (AH 1297 to 1300)

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 127, 128

  2. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 143, 144

Read the original source accounts · 69 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 · 29 dated years

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