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Harun Reşid Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Tokat · Dated entries 1890 to 1908 (AH 1308 to 1325)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

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.

1TokatErbaaAmasyaNiksar
● 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.

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Tokat

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Erbaa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Orman Ondalık Memuru

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 4 recorded years

    Erbaa

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Orman Ondalık Memuru

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Orman Ondalık Memuru (İstifa)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Amasya

    1. Süvari Baştahsildarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Place not recorded / Niksar

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Tahsilât Müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Niksar

      Tahsilât Müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 33

  6. 6

    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 4 recorded years

    Niksar

    AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahsilât Müfettişi

      Calculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kaza Tahsil Memuru

      Calculated age 37

    All 4 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. 1890 to 1895 (AH 1308 to 1312)
  2. 1903 to 1908 (AH 1321 to 1325)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1890 to 1895 (AH 1308 to 1312)
  2. 1903 to 1907 (AH 1321 to 1324)
  3. 1907/08 (AH 1325)
  4. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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; özel hocalar [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · dilbilgisi tahsili [source]
  • 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 185, 186

Read the original source accounts · 14 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 · 11 dated years

How to read the records

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