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Hafız Ali Rıza Efendi

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Dagistan · Dated entries 1889 to 1910 (AH 1307 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, French, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 152/73

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 13 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.

1DagistanIoannina (Yanya)MersinAdanaKastamonuTaşköprüBartınCideIdlib (İdlib)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Dagistan

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. 1

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Dagistan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 25

  3. 3

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Ioannina (Yanya) / Place not recorded / Mersin

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Ioannina (Yanya)

      Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mersin

      Rüştiye muallim-i evveli

      400 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded / Adana

    AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Nakil

      Calculated age 30

    2. Adana

      Edebiyat muallim vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Adana

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İbtidai Mektebi ulûm-ı diniye muallimi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. İbtidai Mektebi ulûm-ı diniye muallimi

      360 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Adana / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Adana

      İbtidai Mektebi Arapça muallimi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 34

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 2 recorded years

    Kastamonu

    AH entries: 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    1. Vilayet maiyet memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. Vilayet Meclis-i İdaresi ikinci başkâtibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

  9. 9

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Taşköprü

    1. Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 41

  10. 10

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Taşköprü / Bartın

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Taşköprü

      Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bartın

      Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 42

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Bartın / Cide

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bartın

      Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Cide

      Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 43

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Cide / İmran

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İmran

    1. Cide

      Kaymakam vekili

      Calculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. İmran

      Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 44

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    İmran / Place not recorded / Lice / Idlib (İdlib)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İmran; Location not recorded; Lice

    1. İmran

      Kaymakam

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Idlib (İdlib)

      Kaymakam

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 45

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

10 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. 1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)
  2. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  3. 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)
  4. 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)
  5. İmran2
    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  6. 1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)

The six most recorded places. 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. Adana180 to 360
  2. İmran2,500
  3. Lice3,000

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)
  2. 1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
  3. 1905 to 1909 (AH 1323 to 1326)
  4. 1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
  5. 1892 to 1899 (AH 1310 to 1316)
  6. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

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; Hıfz ve kıraat icazetnâmeleri; Darülmuallimin-i Rüştiye şehadetnâmesi [1]

Schooling Şehit Paşa Medresesi; Darülmuallimin-i Rüştiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dağıstanlılar

    SAİT ARAS · 2023 · Pages 262, 263, 264, 265, 266

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 152/73

Read the original source accounts · 55 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 · 16 dated years

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