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Born Year not recorded · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Dated entries 1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 154/421

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.

SuşehriŞebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi

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

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 6 recorded years

    Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi

    AH entries: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyidi

      20 kuruş

    2. Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyidi

      150 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi / Suşehri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi

      Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyidi

      150 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Suşehri

      Tahsilat Müfredat Kâtibi

      200 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

4 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.

  • Mülazım (Muhasebe Kalemi) · Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Mülazım (Muhasebe Kalemi) (Görevin sona ermesi) · Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • Birth · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Year not recorded
  • First work as recorded · Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi · Year not recorded

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. Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi7
    1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  2. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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. Karahisar-ı Şarki Muhasebe Kalemi20 to 150

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. 1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  2. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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; Rüşdiye Mektebi (Karahisar-ı Şarki) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 104, 105

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 154/421; 339 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 154/421.; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 154/421

Read the original source accounts · 14 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 · 7 dated years

How to read the records

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