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Hafız Salih Sami Efendi

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Harput · Dated entries 1870 to 1895 (AH 1287 to 1312)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 22-139

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

1HarputSivasIstanbul (Dersaadet)BurdurMardin
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Harput

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Sivas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Kur'a-i şeriyye mümeyyizi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 25

  3. 3

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1288, 1289. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Kur'a-i şeriyye mümeyyizi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Kur'a-i şeriyye mümeyyizi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 27

  4. 4

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Kur'a-i şeriyye mümeyyizi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. Kur'a-i şeriyye mümeyyizi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi birinci hukuk dairesi mülazımı

      Calculated age 34

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi birinci hukuk dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 35

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Tekir

    Not yet located on the map: Tekir

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 39

  7. 7

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 41

  8. 8

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Burdur / Erhani / Tekir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Erhani; Tekir

    1. Burdur

      Ceza dairesi reisi

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Tekir

      Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reis vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 42

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Mardin

    1. Bidayet mahkemesi ceza dairesi reisi

      Calculated age 50

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. 1878 to 1886 (AH 1296 to 1303)
  2. Tekir2
    1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304)
  3. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  4. Erhani1
    1886/87 (AH 1304)
  5. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  6. 1870/71 (AH 1287)

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. Tekir700 to 1,400
  2. Burdur1,400
  3. Erhani1,400

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. 1870 to 1878 (AH 1287 to 1294)
  2. 1883 to 1895 (AH 1301 to 1312)
  3. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  4. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
  5. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  6. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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; Darülhukuk; Darülmuallimin [source]

Qualification Hafızlık, vücuh-ı aşere ve ulûm icazetleri [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 256, 257, 258

    BOA. DH. SAİD 22-139

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 13 dated years

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