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Rıfat Sami Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1905/06 (AH 1323)Nüfus memuruGostivar · 125 kuruş

    1. Nüfus memuru

      Gostivar · Calculated age 29 · 125 kuruş

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Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

062.51251905/06AH 13231905/06 (AH 1323) · Nüfus memuru · Gostivar · age 29 · 125 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Gostivar [source]
Birth province
Kosova [source]
Birth year
1877/78 (AH 1294) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. 162/60 [1]

Education and languages

Bulgarian
Tekellüm [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Gostivar Sıbyan Mektebi; rüştiye mektebi; medrese [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]3.5 (original schooling-year field) [1]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
29 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Gostivar [source]
First-salary field
125 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
1905/06 (AH 1323) [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Kosova doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları (1834-1889)

    DÖNDÜ DOĞAN · 2025 · Pages 149

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