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Hacı Mehmet Nuri Efendi

Born 1844/45 (AH 1260) · Elbistan · Dated entries 1874 to 1897 (AH 1291 to 1314)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d. 125/461

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.

1ElbistanHamaTarabyaBenghazi (Bingazi)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Elbistan

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

    1844/45 (AH 1260)

    Elbistan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Hama

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 31

    2. Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      700 kuruşCalculated age 31

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 18 recorded years

    Hama

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      700 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      660 kuruşCalculated age 49

      Continuing service as described

    All 20 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Hama / Tarabya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Hama

      Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli (Nakil)

      Calculated age 50

      Recorded service ending

    2. Tarabya

      Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 50

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Tarabya / Benghazi (Bingazi)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tarabya

      Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      600 kuruşCalculated age 51

      Continuing service as described

    2. Benghazi (Bingazi)

      Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      700 kuruşCalculated age 51

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 3 recorded years

    Benghazi (Bingazi)

    AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      700 kuruşCalculated age 52

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüşdiye muallim-i evveli

      Calculated age 54

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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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. 1874 to 1893 (AH 1291 to 1310)
  2. 1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
  3. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)

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. Hama100 to 700

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. 1874 to 1897 (AH 1291 to 1314)
  2. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  3. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  4. 1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İcazetname; orta dereceli şahadetname [1]

Schooling Elbistan sıbyan mektebi; Kilis ve Kayseri medreseleri; Fatih Medresesi; Dârülmuallimât rüşdiye şubesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Elbistanlı memurlar

    ŞEYMA BÜLBÜL · 2025 · Pages 67

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d. 125/461.

Read the original source accounts · 37 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 · 24 dated years

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