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Hüseyin Besim Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kemah · Dated entries 1860 to 1890 (AH 1277 to 1307)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.8/99

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)Kemah
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · İskenderun Telgraf ve Posta Müdürlüğü

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.

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

  1. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    İskenderun Telgraf ve Posta Müdürlüğü

    Not yet located on the map: İskenderun Telgraf ve Posta Müdürlüğü

    1. Memur

      300 kuruş

  2. 2

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Mehmet Reşat Posta Merkezi

    Not yet located on the map: Mehmet Reşat Posta Merkezi

    1. Memur

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    İstanbul Merkez

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul Merkez

    1. pul memuriyeti refakati

      250 kuruş

    2. pul memuriyeti refakati

      350 kuruş

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Galata Posta Müdürlüğü

    Not yet located on the map: Galata Posta Müdürlüğü

    1. posta müdürü

      900 kuruş

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Azil

  6. 6

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. pul memuru

      700 kuruş

    2. pul memuru

  7. 7

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. pul memuru

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. veznedar

      1,200 kuruş

6 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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 1890 (AH 1297 to 1307)
  2. Galata Posta Müdürlüğü1
    1872/73 (AH 1289)
  3. İskenderun Telgraf ve Posta Müdürlüğü1
    1860/61 (AH 1277)
  4. İstanbul Merkez1
    1869/70 (AH 1286)
  5. Mehmet Reşat Posta Merkezi1
    1861/62 (AH 1278)

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. Galata Posta Müdürlüğü900
  2. İskenderun Telgraf ve Posta Müdürlüğü300
  3. İstanbul Merkez250 to 350

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. 1860 to 1862 (AH 1277 to 1278)
  2. 1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
  3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  4. 1869/70 (AH 1286)
  5. 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

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 46, 47

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d.8/99.

Read the original source accounts · 14 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 · 8 dated years

How to read the records

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