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Mestan Ragıb Bey

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1895/96 (AH 1313)Sandık eminiDidymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş
  2. 1896/97 (AH 1314)Sandık eminiDidymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Sandık emini

      Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  3. 1897/98 (AH 1315)Sandık emini · 2 career entriesDidymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş

    1. Sandık emini

      Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. İstifa

      [1]

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

01503001895/96AH 13131897/98AH 13151895/96 (AH 1313) · Sandık emini · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314) · Sandık emini · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service1897/98 (AH 1315) · Sandık emini · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Dimetoka [source]
Father’s occupation
Tüccar [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİDd. 78-240 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okuryazar [1]
Education
Dimetoka Sıbyan Mektebi; Dimetoka Rüşdiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
38 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Dimetoka [source]
First-salary field
300 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1895/96 (AH 1313) [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Dimetokalı memurlar

    SİBEL EDEMEN · 2025 · Pages 164, 165

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