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Hacı Ahmed Rıfat Efendi

Born 1878 (AH 1295) · Sivas · Dated entries 1895 to 1908 (AH 1313 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d,nr.00163,s.223

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1895/96 (AH 1313): mukavelat muharriri, Gürün1895/96 (AH 1313): Infisal, place unspecified1905/06 (AH 1323): ikinci daire tahsildarı, Tonus, 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325): sandık emini, Gürün, 400 kuruşAH 1313AH 1325
Places and reading notes
  • Gürün
  • Tonus

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.

1SivasGürün
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Sivas

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

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Gürün / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Gürün

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Gürün

      mukavelat muharriri

      Calculated age 18

    3. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Tonus

    Not yet located on the map: Tonus

    1. ikinci daire tahsildarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 28

  4. 4

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Gürün

    1. sandık emini

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

3 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
02004001905/06AH 13231907/08AH 13251905/06 (AH 1323) · 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325) · 400 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. 1895 to 1908 (AH 1313 to 1325)
  2. Tonus1
    1905/06 (AH 1323)

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. Tonus300

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. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  2. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  3. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  4. 1907/08 (AH 1325)

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; Darende rüştiyesi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1878 (AH 1295) [source]
Father’s occupation
Darende Kazası mal muavini [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d,nr.00163,s.223 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
sıbyan mektebi; Darende rüştiyesi; medrese [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
18 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Gürün [source]
First work year
1895/96 (AH 1313) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 148, 149

    243 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00163,s.223; DH.SAİD.d,nr.00163,s.223

Read the original source accounts · 7 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 · 3 dated years

How to read the records

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