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Hâfız Abdülbâki Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Paşakeri · Dated entries 1865 to 1890 (AH 1282 to 1307)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00056 /00086

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.

BursaBilecikDüzceİnegölAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)İzmitAdapazarı
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Paşakeri

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.

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

  1. 1

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Paşakeri

    Not yet located on the map: Paşakeri

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Harir müzayede katibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 4 recorded years

    Bursa

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İpek müzayede katibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Muayene Memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Bursa / Bilecik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bursa

      Muayene Memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bilecik

      Rüsumat müdüriyeti sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

  5. 5

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 3 recorded years

    Bilecik

    AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüsumat müdüriyeti sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat müdüriyeti sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Bilecik / Bursa / Düzce / Yenişehir, Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenişehir, Bursa

    1. Bilecik

      Rüsumat müdüriyeti sandık emini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yenişehir, Bursa

      Rüsumat Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 4 recorded years

    Yenişehir, Bursa

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Yenişehir, Bursa

    1. Rüsumat Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Yenişehir, Bursa / Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenişehir, Bursa

    1. Yenişehir, Bursa

      Rüsumat Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bursa

      Atik müskirat yoklama ve cedid müskirat istimare memuru

      Calculated age 36

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Bursa / Kite

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kite

    1. Bursa

      Atik müskirat yoklama ve cedid müskirat istimare memuru

      Calculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kite

      Muvakkat duhan yoklama memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    İnegöl

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    1. Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

  11. 11

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    İnegöl / Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) / İzmit

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İnegöl

      Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. İzmit

      Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez müdüriyeti harir ve müskirat katibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    İzmit / Adapazarı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İzmit

      Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez müdüriyeti harir ve müskirat katibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Adapazarı

      Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 44

  13. 13

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 3 recorded years

    Adapazarı

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 47

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

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

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. 1865 to 1880 (AH 1282 to 1297)
  2. Yenişehir, Bursa6
    1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  3. 1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  4. 1886 to 1890 (AH 1304 to 1307)
  5. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  6. 1885 to 1887 (AH 1303 to 1304)

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. Bursa200 to 300
  2. Yenişehir, Bursa600
  3. Adapazarı500 to 750

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. 1874 to 1879 (AH 1291 to 1296)
  2. 1885 to 1890 (AH 1303 to 1307)
  3. 1870 to 1875 (AH 1287 to 1291)
  4. 1868 to 1871 (AH 1285 to 1287)
  5. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  6. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)

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; Karahisar-ı Sahib medreseleri [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları

    İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 69, 70

    ²⁵ BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00056 /00086. 29

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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 · 23 dated years

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