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Hacı Mustafa Efendi

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Bursa · Dated entries 1865 to 1900 (AH 1282 to 1317)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 61/42; 81

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

1Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Bursa

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

    1848/49 (AH 1265)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. koza ve harir müzâyede kitâbeti

      166.5 kuruşCalculated age 18

    2. muhâsebe refik-i râbialığı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 12 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. (maaş indirimi: yüz de beş ve küsuru )

      Calculated age 23

    2. muhâsebe refik-i evvelliği

      750 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 18 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Career entry

      900 kuruşCalculated age 52

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.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1294)
  2. 1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
  3. 1866 to 1869 (AH 1283 to 1285)
  4. 1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
  5. 1866/67 (AH 1283)
  6. 1871/72 (AH 1288)

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 [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. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 130,131

    61/42; 81

Read the original source accounts · 26 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 · 18 dated years

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