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Ġbrahim Ethem Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kars · Dated entries 1881 to 1897 (AH 1299 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 9/195; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 9/195

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

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.

1ErzurumKars
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Erzurum / Kaleboğazı

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.

  1. 1

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Erzurum / Kaleboğazı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kaleboğazı

    1. Erzurum

      Gümrük İran Kapı kâtibi

      160 kuruş

    2. Kaleboğazı

      Rüsumat Memuru

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 13 recorded years

    Erzurum

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüsumat Merkez İdaresi mübassırı

      250 kuruş

    2. Merkez İdaresi kapı kâtibi

      250 kuruş

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

10 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. 1881 to 1897 (AH 1299 to 1314)
  2. Kaleboğazı1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)

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. Erzurum160 to 250
  2. Kaleboğazı400

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. 1884 to 1897 (AH 1302 to 1314)
  2. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)

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; özel hocalardan Arapça ve Farsça [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. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)

    RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ · 2015 · Pages 83, 84

    61 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 9/195.; BOA. DH.d. SAİD. No: 9/195

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 14 dated years

How to read the records

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