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Hacı Ahmed Rifat Efendi

Born 1839/40 (AH 1255) · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Dated entries 1860 to 1889 (AH 1277 to 1306)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00007/00010

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 4 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.

1Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

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 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1
    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Arazi Kalemi ikinci kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 22

  3. 3

    1861/62 (AH 1278) · 23 recorded years

    Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

    AH entries: 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Arazi Kalemi ikinci kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Arazi Kalemi başkâtibi

      Calculated age 45

    All 27 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Tekaüt

      190 kuruş · retirement amountCalculated age 51

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. 1860 to 1883 (AH 1277 to 1300)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1870 to 1883 (AH 1287 to 1300)
  2. 1860 to 1871 (AH 1277 to 1287)

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 hoca [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları

    İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 58, 59

    BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00007/00010.

Read the original source accounts · 29 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 · 25 dated years

How to read the records

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