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Emil Daniş Valçiva

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Şire · Dated entries 1880/81 (AH 1298)

Languages Arabic, French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1880/81 (AH 1298): Ragusa Şehbenderhanesi kançılарı, Ragusa, 1,000 kuruşAH 1298
Places and reading notes
  • Ragusa

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.

Follow 2 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.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 2 · Şire

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

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Şire

    Not yet located on the map: Şire

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Ragusa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Ragusa

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Ragusa Şehbenderhanesi kançılарı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 18

1 entry 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
05001,0001880/81AH 12981880/81 (AH 1298) · 1,000 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. Ragusa1
    1880/81 (AH 1298)

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. Ragusa1,000

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. 1880/81 (AH 1298)

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 Mekteb-i Sultânî; Andori (?) Mektebi, Cebel-i Lübnan [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • French · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Italian · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Rum (as recorded) · Tekellüm [source]
  • Turkish · Tekellüm [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Şire [source]
Birth year
1863/64 (AH 1280) [source]
Father’s occupation
Ragusa başşehbenderi [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
French
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Italian
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Rum (as recorded)
Tekellüm [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm [source]
Education
Mekteb-i Sultânî; Andori (?) Mektebi, Cebel-i Lübnan [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
18 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Ragusa [source]
First-salary field
1000 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1880/81 (AH 1298) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 268

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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 · 1 dated years

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