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Hacı Mehmed Refik Efendi

Born 1876/77 (AH 1293) · Bursa · Dated entries 1892 to 1911 (AH 1310 to 1328)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 88/154; 305

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 3 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 3 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Hüdâvendigâr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 17 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mülazemet

      Calculated age 19

    2. esasi defteri kitâbeti

      500 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 21 recorded entries in this stage →

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

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. Hüdâvendigâr1
    1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1894 to 1910 (AH 1312 to 1327)
  2. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  3. 1910/11 (AH 1328)

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 (Bursa); mekteb-i rüşdiye-i askeriye [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 129,130

    88/154; 305

Read the original source accounts · 23 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

How to read the records

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