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HAMZA EFENDİ

Born 1884/85 (AH 1302) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1905/06 (AH 1323): Geçici merkez kolcusu, Shkodër (İşkodra), 150 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324): Geçici merkez kolcusu, Shkodër (İşkodra), 150 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324): Geçici merkez kolcusu (Nakil), Shkodër (İşkodra)1906/07 (AH 1324): Asaleten muhafız kolcusu, Şurûk, 120 kuruşAH 1323AH 1324
Places and reading notes
  • Shkodër (İşkodra)
  • Şurûk

2 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 3 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.

1Shkodër (İşkodra)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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. 1

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Geçici merkez kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Shkodër (İşkodra) / Şurûk

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Şurûk

    1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Geçici merkez kolcusu

      150 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Geçici merkez kolcusu (Nakil)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

    3. Şurûk

      Asaleten muhafız kolcusu

      120 kuruşCalculated age 22

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
0751501905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241905/06 (AH 1323) · 150 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · 150 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · 120 kuruş

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. 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
  2. Şurûk1
    1906/07 (AH 1324)

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. Şurûk120

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. 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
  2. 1906/07 (AH 1324)

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 Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İşkodra [source]
Birth province
İşkodra [source]
Birth year
1884/85 (AH 1302) [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Tekellüm [source]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
21 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
İşkodra [source]
First-salary field
150 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1905/06 (AH 1323) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 155

Read the original source accounts · 4 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 · 2 dated years

How to read the records

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