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Hüseyin Avni Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Sivas · Dated entries 1891/92 (AH 1309)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d,nr.00083,s.343

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1891/92 (AH 1309): Telgraf ve posta müdürü, Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak), 600 kuruşAH 1309
Places and reading notes
  • Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak)

1 distinct dated year. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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1SivasKoy Sanjaq (Köysancak)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Sivas

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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.

  1. 1

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak)

    1. Telgraf ve posta müdürü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 19

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.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
03006001891/92AH 13091891/92 (AH 1309) · 600 kuruş

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● 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. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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 Sivas iptidaiye mektebi; Sivas rüştiye mektebi [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
1873/74 (AH 1290) [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d,nr.00083,s.343 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education detail
iptidaiye diploması (dördüncü derece); rüştiyede dört sene kadar, kıraat hocalarından diploma [source]
Education
Sivas iptidaiye mektebi; Sivas rüştiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 (original schooling-year field) [1]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Sivas [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 187, 188

    323 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00083,s.343

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