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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Dimitraki Vasilyadi Efendi

Born 1852/53 (AH 1269) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1884 to 1911 (AH 1302 to 1328)

Languages French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Follow 13 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1852/53 (AH 1269)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Menteşe Sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 33

    2. Nafia mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 33

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Menteşe Sancağı / Üsküp Sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı; Üsküp Sancağı

    1. Menteşe Sancağı

      Nafia mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üsküp Sancağı

      Sancak mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 3 recorded years

    Üsküp Sancağı

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküp Sancağı

    1. Sancak mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sancak mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Üsküp Sancağı / Kosova Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküp Sancağı; Kosova Vilayeti

    1. Üsküp Sancağı

      Sancak mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kosova Vilayeti

      Vilayet başmühendisi

      1,750 kuruşCalculated age 38

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Kosova Vilayeti

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti

    1. Vilayet başmühendisi

      Calculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Kosova Vilayeti / Kastamonu Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova Vilayeti; Kastamonu Vilayeti

    1. Kosova Vilayeti

      Vilayet başmühendisi

      Calculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kastamonu Vilayeti

      Vilayet başmühendisi

      Calculated age 40

  8. 8

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Kastamonu Vilayeti / Place not recorded / Suriye Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kastamonu Vilayeti; Location not recorded; Suriye Vilayeti

    1. Kastamonu Vilayeti

      Vilayet başmühendisi

      Calculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Suriye Vilayeti

      Nafia başmühendisi

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Suriye Vilayeti

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye Vilayeti

    1. Nafia başmühendisi

      Calculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Suriye Vilayeti / Beyrut Vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye Vilayeti; Beyrut Vilayeti

    1. Suriye Vilayeti

      Nafia başmühendisi

      Calculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beyrut Vilayeti

      Hava gazı komiserliği nafia başmühendisi

      Calculated age 43

  11. 11

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

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

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Açıkta

      0 kuruşCalculated age 51

    2. Açıkta

      0 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Place not recorded / Samsun Sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Samsun Sancağı

    1. Place not recorded

      Açıkta

      0 kuruşCalculated age 55

      Continuing service as described

    2. Samsun Sancağı

      Nafia mühendisi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 55

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Samsun Sancağı / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Samsun Sancağı; Location not recorded

    1. Samsun Sancağı

      Nafia mühendisi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 59

      Recorded service ending

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 59

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. Üsküp Sancağı5
    1885 to 1890 (AH 1303 to 1307)
  2. Kosova Vilayeti3
    1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  3. Suriye Vilayeti3
    1892 to 1895 (AH 1310 to 1312)
  4. Kastamonu Vilayeti2
    1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
  5. Menteşe Sancağı2
    1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  6. Beyrut Vilayeti1
    1894/95 (AH 1312)

The six most recorded places. 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. Üsküp Sancağı1,500
  2. Kosova Vilayeti1,750
  3. Suriye Vilayeti2,500
  4. Menteşe Sancağı1,500
  5. Samsun Sancağı1,500

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. 1902 to 1907 (AH 1320 to 1324)
  2. 1885 to 1890 (AH 1303 to 1307)
  3. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  4. 1892 to 1895 (AH 1310 to 1312)
  5. 1884 to 1907 (AH 1302 to 1324)
  6. 1894/95 (AH 1312)

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; Mekteb-i Sultani şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Beyoğlu Rum Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani (şahadetname) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • French · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Italian · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde İstanbul doğumlu Yahudi ve Rum devlet adamları

    AHMET SÜRMEN · 2011 · Pages 122, 123

    208 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00055/00005, s. 9.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00055/00005, s. 9.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 17 dated years

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