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HALİL VEHBİ EFENDİ

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Salahiyye · Dated entries 1880 to 1905 (AH 1298 to 1322)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00158_00010

The career, year by year

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

Follow 14 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.

Hillah (Hille)Baghdad (Bağdat)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 14 · Salahiyye

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.

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

  1. 1

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Salahiyye

    Not yet located on the map: Salahiyye

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Amara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 13

    2. tahrirat kalemi avrak mübeyyizi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 13

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Amara / Hillah (Hille)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara

    1. Amara

      tahrirat kalemi avrak mübeyyizi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 14

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hillah (Hille)

      tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      32 kuruşCalculated age 14

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Hillah (Hille)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      32 kuruşCalculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 15

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Muntefik

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Muntefik

    1. tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      65 kuruşCalculated age 16

    2. tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Muntefik / Amara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Muntefik; Amara

    1. Muntefik

      tahrirat kalemi mübeyyizi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Amara

      tapu emlak kâtibi (aidatlı)

      Calculated age 18

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Amara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara

    1. tapu emlak kâtibi (aidatlı)

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. tapu emlak kâtibi (aidatlı) (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 19

      Recorded service ending

  8. 8

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 4 recorded years

    Baghdad (Bağdat)

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Reji nezareti kitabet muavini

      200 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Reji nezareti kitabet muavini

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Baghdad (Bağdat) / Hurasan / Hanakin

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hurasan; Hanakin

    1. Baghdad (Bağdat)

      Reji nezareti kitabet muavini

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hanakin

      Reji Memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 4 recorded years

    Hanakin

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Hanakin

    1. Reji Memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Reji Memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Hanakin / Hurasan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hanakin; Hurasan

    1. Hanakin

      Reji Memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hurasan

      Reji Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 29

  12. 12

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Hurasan / Baghdad (Bağdat) / Amara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hurasan; Amara

    1. Hurasan

      Reji Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Amara

      arazi-i seniye komisyonu masarifat kâtibi refiki

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  13. 13

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 6 recorded years

    Amara

    AH entries: 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara

    1. arazi-i seniye komisyonu masarifat kâtibi refiki

      Calculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. arazi-i seniye komisyonu masarifat kâtibi refiki

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  14. 14

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Amara / Hamidiye vapurları idaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Amara; Hamidiye vapurları idaresi

    1. Amara

      arazi-i seniye komisyonu masarifat kâtibi refiki

      Calculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hamidiye vapurları idaresi

      Hamidiye vapurları idaresi fabrika ve havz kâtibi

      800 kuruşCalculated age 37

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. Amara12
    1880 to 1905 (AH 1298 to 1322)
  2. 1887 to 1898 (AH 1305 to 1315)
  3. Hanakin6
    1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  4. Hurasan3
    1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)
  5. Muntefik3
    1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  6. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)

The six most recorded places. 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. Amara32 to 570
  2. Hanakin700
  3. Hurasan400 to 500
  4. Muntefik65 to 200

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1897 to 1905 (AH 1315 to 1322)
  2. 1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)
  3. 1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)
  4. 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
  5. 1880 to 1882 (AH 1298 to 1299)
  6. 1885 to 1887 (AH 1303 to 1304)

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 (Bağdat ve Amara) [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 Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları

    ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 374, 375, 376

    280 DH_SAİD,00158_00010

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated years

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