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Civanyan Nişan Efendi

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1868 to 1901 (AH 1285 to 1318)

Languages Armenian, English, French, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD 186/ 37; 166 DH. SAİD d. nr. 76/393 s. 393

Life and career

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Follow 12 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)KaradagErzurum
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 12 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Fenerler İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Fenerler İdaresi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Fenerler İdaresi hizmet kâtibi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 17

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 4 recorded years

    Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi

    1. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi memuru

      150 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi / Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi; Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi

      Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

      İstişare Odası halifesi

      971 kuruşCalculated age 29

  5. 5

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. İstişare Odası halifesi

      971 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstişare Odası halifesi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası / Karadag

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

      İstişare Odası halifesi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Karadag

      Karadağ sınır komisyonu kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 4 recorded years

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. İstişare Odası halifesi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstişare Odası halifesi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası / Erzurum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

      İstişare Odası halifesi

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erzurum

      Erzurum sınır komisyonu Fransızca kâtibi

      Calculated age 37

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası / Erzurum / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

      Tahrirat-ı Hariciye İstişare Odası muavini

      Calculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erzurum

      Erzurum sınır komisyonu Fransızca kâtibi

      Calculated age 38

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası / Erzurum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

      Tahrirat-ı Hariciye İstişare Odası muavini

      Calculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erzurum

      Erzurum sınır komisyonu Fransızca kâtibi

      Calculated age 39

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 4 recorded years

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye İstişare Odası muavini

      Calculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye İstişare Odası muavini

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 5 recorded years

    Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası

    1. İstişare Odası memuru

      1,530 kuruşCalculated age 46

    2. İstişare Odası memuru

      2,180 kuruşCalculated age 50

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

5 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.

The career, year by year

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

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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.

This dossier has no validated link to the annual salary comparison.

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Open every recorded amount and its year

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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. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası20
    1879 to 1901 (AH 1297 to 1318)
  2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi5
    1876 to 1880 (AH 1293 to 1297)
  3. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  4. Fenerler İdaresi1
    1868/69 (AH 1285)
  5. 1888/89 (AH 1306)
  6. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

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. Hariciye Nezareti İstişare Odası971 to 2,180
  2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi150 to 400
  3. Fenerler İdaresi600
  4. Karadag3,000

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. 1879 to 1888 (AH 1297 to 1305)
  2. 1887 to 1894 (AH 1305 to 1311)
  3. 1896 to 1901 (AH 1314 to 1318)
  4. 1876 to 1880 (AH 1293 to 1297)
  5. 1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
  6. 1868/69 (AH 1285)

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; Diploma [1]

Schooling Üsküdar Selamsız Ermeni Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Armenian · tekellüm, kitâbet ve tercüme [source]
  • English · tekellüm, kitâbet ve tercüme [source]
  • French · tekellüm, kitâbet ve tercüme [source]
  • Turkish · tekellüm, kitâbet ve tercüme [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre İstanbul doğumlu Ermeni devlet adamları

    HARUN TUNCA · 2016 · Pages 126, 127, 128

    DH. SAİD 186/ 37; 166 DH. SAİD d. nr. 76/393 s. 393

Read the original source accounts · 49 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 · 25 dated years

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