Individual dossier

Mehmet Cemal Efendi

189-115-114Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Cemal Efendi was born in Adapazari in AH 1309. Recorded schooling includes 4 years at hususi muallim. First work is recorded in Geyve in AH 1327 (18 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 3 distinct AH years between 1327 and 1329; it begins with mulazim in Geyve (200 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 189-115-114

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1327–1329
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 66767, 66999, 67122

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1329
    Source lines 40551

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 40549
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1328
    Source lines 40550
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1329
    Source lines 40551

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1327
    Source lines 66767
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1328
    Source lines 66999
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1329
    Source lines 67122

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 39243
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1328
    Source lines 39244
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1329
    Source lines 39245

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 39243
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1328
    Source lines 39244
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1329
    Source lines 39245

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

About these sources

Life and career

3 recorded AH years · 3 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1309
  2. AH 1327Birth-year difference: 18 AH years
  3. AH 1327–1328Birth-year difference: 18–19 AH years
  4. AH 1329Birth-year difference: 20 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1327

mulazim · geyve · 200 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1327 in geyve. The first-salary field is 200 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1327Recorded first-work anchorgeyve
0100200AH 1327AH 1328AH 1329AH 1327: 200 kuruş / month · mulazim · geyveAH 1328: 200 kuruş / month · mulazim · geyveAH 1329: 200 kuruş / month · mulazim · adapazari

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1327Recorded first-work anchorgeyve
adapazari: Locality linkage; agreedadapazarigeyve: Locality linkage; agreedgeyve

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes

Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.

  1. Locality geyve → adapazari

A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
hususi muallim
Schooling duration
4 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
memur
Recorded birth year
AH 1309
Religion wording
musluman
Nationality wording
turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1327
Place
geyve
First-salary field
200 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • mulazim
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionmulazimeda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 40549, 40550, 40551
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionmulazimeda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 40549, 40550, 40551
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 66767
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1328
Source lines 66999
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1329
Source lines 67122
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40549
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1328
Source lines 40550
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1329
Source lines 40551
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40549
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1328
Source lines 40550
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1329
Source lines 40551
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40549
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1328
Source lines 40550
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1329
Source lines 40551
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 40549
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1328
Source lines 40550
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1329
Source lines 40551
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40549
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1328
Source lines 40550
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1329
Source lines 40551
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40549
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1328
Source lines 40550
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1329
Source lines 40551
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 40549
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1328
Source lines 40550
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1329
Source lines 40551
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 40549
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1328
Source lines 40550
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1329
Source lines 40551
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 40549
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1328
Source lines 40550
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1329
Source lines 40551
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1327
Source lines 66767
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1328
Source lines 66999
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1329
Source lines 67122
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 39243
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1328
Source lines 39244
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1329
Source lines 39245
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 39243
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1328
Source lines 39244
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1329
Source lines 39245

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Outside the paper sample
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (75)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1309recovered · dobirth
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
birthPlaceadapazarirecovered · birth_place
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
birthProvinceizmitrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
schoolhususi muallimrecovered · school_type
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
schoolingYears4recovered · school_year
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
religionmuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
nationalityturkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
fatherJobmemurrecovered · father_job
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
firstWorkH1327recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
firstWorkPlacegeyverecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
firstWorkSalary200recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
birthLatitude40.78939499999989recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
birthLongitude30.407733000000004recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 37070, 37071, 37072
nameMehmet Cemal Efendi september · İsim
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
birthH1309september · dobirth
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
birthPlaceadapazariseptember · birthplace
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
birthProvinceizmitseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
schoolhususi muallimseptember · school_type
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
schoolingYears4september · education_year
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
apprenticeshipYears0september · mulazemet
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
apprenticeshipYears0september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
fatherJobmemurseptember · fatherjob
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
firstWorkH1327september · firstjob_year
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
firstWorkPlacegeyveseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
firstWorkSalary200september · firstjob_wage
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
birthLatitude40.78939499999989september · lat_birth_place
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
birthLongitude30.407733000000004september · lon_birth_place
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 39243, 39244, 39245
nameMehmet Cemal Efendi older · İsim
source lines 120, 136, 144
birthH1309older · dobirth
source lines 120, 136, 144
birthPlaceadapazariolder · birthplace
source lines 120, 136, 144
birthProvinceizmitolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 120, 136, 144
schoolhususi muallimolder · school_type
source lines 120, 136, 144
schoolingYears4older · education_year
source lines 120, 136, 144
apprenticeshipYears0older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 120, 136, 144
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 120, 136, 144
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 120, 136, 144
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 120, 136, 144
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 120, 136, 144
fatherJobmemurolder · fatherjob
source lines 120, 136, 144
firstWorkH1327older · firstjob_year
source lines 120, 136, 144
firstWorkPlacegeyveolder · firstjob_place
source lines 120, 136, 144
firstWorkSalary200older · firstjob_wage
source lines 120, 136, 144
birthLatitude40.78939499999989older · lat_birth_place
source lines 120, 136, 144
birthLongitude30.407733000000004older · lon_birth_place
source lines 120, 136, 144
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 120, 136, 144
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 120, 136, 144

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Cemal Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 189-115-114. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-56d7f3592ffb8088/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 189-115-114
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-56d7f3592ffb8088/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.