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Hocabey Şehbenderliği Kançıları Dikran Hünkarbeğendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1861 to 1891 (AH 1278 to 1308)

Languages Armenian, French, Turkish

The career, year by year

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

Life and career

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Follow 13 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Ruse (Rusçuk)Sulina (Sünne)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 13 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1861/62 (AH 1278)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1862/63 (AH 1279) · 3 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1279, 1280, 1281. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Ruse (Rusçuk)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Ruse (Rusçuk)

      Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      720 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 2 recorded years

    Ruse (Rusçuk)

    AH entries: 1283, 1284. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      720 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Ruse (Rusçuk) / Sulina (Sünne)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ruse (Rusçuk)

      Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sulina (Sünne)

      Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Başmemuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 25

  7. 7

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Sulina (Sünne) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sulina (Sünne)

      Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Başmemuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 26

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Sulina (Sünne)

    1. Kaza tercümanı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  9. 9

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Sulina (Sünne) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sulina (Sünne)

      Kaza tercümanı

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Hariciye Nezareti umur-ı hukukiye-i muhtelite kalemi memuru

      Calculated age 41

    2. Hariciye Nezareti umur-ı hukukiye-i muhtelite kalemi memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Place not recorded / Hocabey

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Hocabey

    1. Place not recorded

      Hariciye Nezareti umur-ı hukukiye-i muhtelite kalemi memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hocabey

      Başşehbenderhane kançıları

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 44

  12. 12

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Hocabey

    Not yet located on the map: Hocabey

    1. Şehbender vekili

      Calculated age 45

  13. 13

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Rütbe-i saniye sınıf-ı mütemeyyizi

      Calculated age 48

1 entry 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

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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. 1861 to 1866 (AH 1278 to 1282)
  2. 1865 to 1869 (AH 1282 to 1285)
  3. 1868 to 1872 (AH 1285 to 1288)
  4. Hocabey2
    1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  2. Ruse (Rusçuk)600 to 720
  3. Sulina (Sünne)800 to 1,000
  4. Hocabey1,000

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. 1861 to 1866 (AH 1278 to 1282)
  2. 1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304)
  3. 1865 to 1869 (AH 1282 to 1285)
  4. 1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
  5. 1868 to 1870 (AH 1285 to 1286)
  6. 1886/87 (AH 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 Hasköy Ermeni mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 245, 246

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 · 17 dated years

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