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Born 1855/56 (AH 1272) · Antalya · Dated entries 1872 to 1894 (AH 1289 to 1311)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAĠD.d. 00100 – 00094/185

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Antalya

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.

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

  1. 1

    1855/56 (AH 1272)

    Antalya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Teke

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 17 recorded years

    Teke

    AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Merkez ve vukuat kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 23 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Teke / Kızılkaya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke; Kızılkaya

    1. Teke

      Merkez ve vukuat kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kızılkaya

      Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 35

  5. 5

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 3 recorded years

    Kızılkaya

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kızılkaya

    1. Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Kızılkaya / İstanos

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kızılkaya; İstanos

    1. Kızılkaya

      Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstanos

      Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 39

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. Teke19
    1872 to 1890 (AH 1289 to 1307)
  2. Kızılkaya5
    1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  3. İstanos1
    1893/94 (AH 1311)

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. Teke95 to 400
  2. Kızılkaya400
  3. İstanos400

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. 1875 to 1890 (AH 1292 to 1307)
  2. 1889 to 1894 (AH 1307 to 1311)
  3. 1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
  4. 1874 to 1876 (AH 1291 to 1292)
  5. 1872 to 1874 (AH 1289 to 1290)
  6. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Âlâ derecede rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Antalya sıbyan ve rüşdiye mektepleri [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 Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Antalyalı memurlar (1879-1909)

    MEHMET FATİH DEMİRDAŞ · 2019 · Pages 151, 152

    128 BOA, DH.SAĠD.d. 00100 – 00094/185

Read the original source accounts · 31 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 · 23 dated years

How to read the records

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