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Ahmet Hamdi Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Erzincan · Career evidence 1881 to 1907 (AH 1299 to 1324)

Follow 6 dated stages in the life. Choose a dated stage below the map to read its places, posts, age, pay and sources.

1ErzurumDoğubayazıt (Bayezid)BErzincan
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Selected stage connections

All 6 dated stops · select a number or read the account.

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Erzincan telgrafhanesi / Erzurum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Kept as text: Erzincan telgrafhanesi

    1. Erzincan telgrafhanesi

      telgraf mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

      Entry & evidence →[1]

    2. Erzurum

      posta kâtibi vekili

      285 kuruş

      Entry & evidence →[1]

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Doğubayazıt (Bayezid)

    1. telgraf ve posta memuru

      400 kuruş

      Entry & evidence →[1]

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Erzincan

    1. telgraf ve posta memuru

      380 kuruş

      Entry & evidence →[1]

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 3 recorded years

    Erzurum merkezi

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Kept as text: Erzurum merkezi

    1. telgraf ve posta muhabere memuru

      500 kuruş

      Entry & evidence →[1]

    2. telgraf ve posta muhabere memuru

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

      Entry & evidence →[1]

    3. telgraf ve posta muhabere memuru

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

      Entry & evidence →[1]

  5. 5

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Erzurum merkezi / Erzincan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Kept as text: Erzurum merkezi

    1. Erzurum merkezi

      telgraf ve posta muhabere memuru

      500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

      Entry & evidence →[1]

    2. Erzincan

      Muhabere Memuru

      500 kuruş

      Entry & evidence →[1]

  6. 6

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Bulanık

    Kept as text: Bulanık

    1. telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      Entry & evidence →[1]

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.

  • telgraf mülazımı · Erzincan telgrafhanesi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Birth · Erzincan · Year not recorded
  • First work as recorded · Erzincan · Year not recorded

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; they are year labels, not exact date conversions. Ages are calculated from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02505001881/82AH 12991888/89AH 13061895/96AH 13131881/82 (AH 1299) · 285 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301) · 400 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · 380 kuruş1892/93 (AH 1310) · 500 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 500 kuruş1894/95 (AH 1312) · 500 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 500 kuruş1895/96 (AH 1313) · 500 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. Erzurum merkezi4
    1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
  2. 1884 to 1896 (AH 1302 to 1313)
  3. Bulanık1
    1906/07 (AH 1324)
  4. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  5. 1881/82 (AH 1299)

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. Erzurum merkezi500
  2. Erzincan380 to 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. 1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
  2. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  3. 1895/96 (AH 1313)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. 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.

Personal record

Personal details

Birthplace
Erzincan[source]
Father’s occupation
telgraf çavuşu[source]
Religion
İslam[source]
Archive references
138 BOA, DH. SAİD, 21/99[1]BOA, DH. SAİD, 21/99[1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet[source]okur yazar[1]
Education
sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye[source]
Education level equivalent
7[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Erzincan[source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına Göre Erzincanlı memurlar

    ENGİN ADAK · 2008 · Pages 96, 97

    138 BOA, DH. SAİD, 21/99; BOA, DH. SAİD, 21/99

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 8 dated years

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