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Estefan Efendi

Born 1861/62 (AH 1278) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)

Languages Greek, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1887/88 (AH 1305): Üçüncü sınıf kondüktör, Bolu sancağı, 500 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306): Üçüncü sınıf kondüktör, Bolu sancağı, 500 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306): Infisal, place unspecifiedAH 1305AH 1306
Places and reading notes
  • Bolu sancağı

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

Follow 3 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.

1Safranbolu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Safranbolu

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

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Bolu sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bolu sancağı

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 27

    2. Üçüncü sınıf kondüktör

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Bolu sancağı / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bolu sancağı; Location not recorded

    1. Bolu sancağı

      Üçüncü sınıf kondüktör

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 28

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
02505001887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061887/88 (AH 1305) · 500 kuruş1888/89 (AH 1306) · 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. Bolu sancağı2
    1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)

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. Bolu sancağı500

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. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  2. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

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 Zağfiranbolu Rum Mektebi; muallim-i mahsus [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Greek · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Safranbolu [source]
Birth province
Kastamonu [source]
Birth year
1861/62 (AH 1278) [source]
Father’s occupation
Tüccar [source]
Nationality or community
Rum [source]

Education and languages

Greek
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Zağfiranbolu Rum Mektebi; muallim-i mahsus [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
27 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Bolu sancağı [source]
First-salary field
500 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
1887/88 (AH 1305) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 58

Read the original source accounts · 3 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 · 2 dated years

How to read the records

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