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Cafer-i Tayyar Efendi

Birthplace: selanik Observed AH 1325

153-170-335Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Cafer-i Tayyar Efendi was born in Selanik in AH 1302. Recorded schooling includes 12 years at Mektebi Sultani. First work is recorded in Kayseri in AH 1325 (23 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Kayseri (500 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1302
  2. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 23 AH years
  3. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 23 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 1325

Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti · kayseri · 500 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1325 in kayseri. The first-salary field is 500 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1325 · 1907 labelRecorded first-work anchorkayseri
500 kuruş / month

AH 1325 · 1907 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1325 · 1907 labelRecorded first-work anchorkayseri
selanik: Locality linkage; agreedselanikkayseri: Locality linkage; agreedkayseri

◆ 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.

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
Mektebi Sultani
Schooling duration
12 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Telgraf Memuru
Recorded birth year
AH 1302
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 1325 · 1907 label
Place
kayseri
First-salary field
500 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

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
French
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.

Further biographical evidence

Source wording and status assertions

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • FL Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes

These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingFL Communication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 38103
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyetieda-memur · currentjob
source lines 39368
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyetieda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 39368
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65795
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39368
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39368
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39368
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39368
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65795
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38103
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38103
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.

Every displayed annual entry. Select a year to inspect its salary, title, place and source together.
Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1907Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyetikayseri500recovered
line 35938
  1. AH 1325 · 1907 label

    Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti

    Original title: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti

    kayseri

    500 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 35938

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 (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1302recovered · dobirth
source lines 35938
birthPlaceselanikrecovered · birthplace
source lines 35938
birthPlaceselanikrecovered · birth_place
source lines 35938
birthProvinceselanikrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 35938
schoolMektebi Sultanirecovered · school_type
source lines 35938
schoolingYears12recovered · education_year
source lines 35938
schoolingYears12recovered · school_year
source lines 35938
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 35938
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 35938
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 35938
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 35938
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 35938
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 35938
fatherJobTelgraf Memururecovered · fatherjob
source lines 35938
fatherJobtelgraf memururecovered · father_job
source lines 35938
firstWorkH1325recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 35938
firstWorkG1907recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 35938
firstWorkPlacekayserirecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 35938
firstWorkSalary500recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 35938
birthLatitude40.62992200000007recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 35938
birthLongitude22.957269999999593recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 35938
nameCafer-i Tayyar Efendi september · İsim
source lines 38103
birthH1302september · dobirth
source lines 38103
birthPlaceselanikseptember · birthplace
source lines 38103
birthProvinceselanikseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 38103
schoolmektebi sultaniseptember · school_type
source lines 38103
schoolingYears12september · education_year
source lines 38103
apprenticeshipYears0september · mulazemet
source lines 38103
apprenticeshipYears0september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 38103
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 38103
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 38103
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 38103
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 38103
fatherJobtelgraf memuruseptember · fatherjob
source lines 38103
firstWorkH1325september · firstjob_year
source lines 38103
firstWorkPlacekayseriseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 38103
firstWorkSalary500september · firstjob_wage
source lines 38103
birthLatitude40.62992200000007september · lat_birth_place
source lines 38103
birthLongitude22.957269999999593september · lon_birth_place
source lines 38103
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 38103
language:FrenchKitabetseptember · lang_french
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:French2september · lang_french2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 38103
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 38103
nameCafer-i Tayyar Efendi older · İsim
source lines 60211
birthH1302older · dobirth
source lines 60211
birthPlaceselanikolder · birthplace
source lines 60211
birthProvinceselanikolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 60211
schoolmektebi sultaniolder · school_type
source lines 60211
schoolingYears12older · education_year
source lines 60211
apprenticeshipYears0older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 60211
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 60211
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 60211
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 60211
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 60211
fatherJobtelgraf memuruolder · fatherjob
source lines 60211
firstWorkH1325older · firstjob_year
source lines 60211
firstWorkPlacekayseriolder · firstjob_place
source lines 60211
firstWorkSalary500older · firstjob_wage
source lines 60211
birthLatitude40.62992200000007older · lat_birth_place
source lines 60211
birthLongitude22.957269999999593older · lon_birth_place
source lines 60211
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 60211
language:FrenchKitabetolder · lang_french
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:French2older · lang_french2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 60211
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 60211

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

Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Cafer-i Tayyar Efendi”, archival reference 153-170-335, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-66773b014028d1f0/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-66773b014028d1f0/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.