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Halil Rifad Efendi

Born 1847/48 (AH 1264) · Tokat · Dated entries 1866 to 1883 (AH 1283 to 1300)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 94, s. 473

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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Tokat

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

    1847/48 (AH 1264)

    Tokat

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Tokat / Tokat Kalhane Dairesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat Kalhane Dairesi

    1. Tokat

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. Tokat Kalhane Dairesi

      Stajyer

      Calculated age 19

  3. 3

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Tokat Kalhane Dairesi

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat Kalhane Dairesi

    1. Kâtip Muavini

      Calculated age 20

  4. 4

    1869/70 (AH 1286) · 3 recorded years

    Tokat Kalhane

    AH entries: 1286, 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat Kalhane

    1. Kalhane Omca Kâtibi

      208 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Kalhane Gümrük Başkâtibi

      Calculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 10 recorded years

    Tokat

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

    1. Kal Ağası

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Kal Ağası

      300 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Tokat / Tokat Kalhane

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tokat Kalhane

    1. Tokat

      Kal Ağası

      300 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tokat Kalhane

      Kalhane Başmuhasebe Kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

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. 1873 to 1883 (AH 1290 to 1300)
  2. Tokat Kalhane4
    1869 to 1883 (AH 1286 to 1300)
  3. Tokat Kalhane Dairesi2
    1866 to 1868 (AH 1283 to 1284)

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. Tokat250 to 300
  2. Tokat Kalhane208 to 400

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. 1873 to 1883 (AH 1290 to 1300)
  2. 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
  3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. 1869/70 (AH 1286)
  5. 1867/68 (AH 1284)
  6. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

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 Alipaşa Mektebi; özel hocalar [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 Osmanlı döneminde Tokatlı devlet memurları ( 1879-1909 )

    ÜMMÜHAN UĞURLU · 2013 · Pages 183, 184

    BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 94, s. 473

Read the original source accounts · 18 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 · 16 dated years

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