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Seyit Mehmet Efendi

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. 1900/01 (AH 1318)Polis memuruSivas · 150 kuruş

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 30 · 150 kuruş

      [1]

  2. 1901/02 (AH 1319)Polis memuruSivas · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 31 · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)Polis memuruSivas · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 32 · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)Polis memuruSivas · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 33 · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  5. 1904/05 (AH 1322)Polis memuruSivas · 150 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 34 · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  6. 1905/06 (AH 1323)Polis memuruSivas · 150; 200 kuruş

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 35 · 150 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 35 · 200 kuruş

      [1]

  7. 1906/07 (AH 1324)Polis memuruSivas · 200 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 36 · 200 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  8. 1907/08 (AH 1325)Polis memuru · 2 career entriesSivas · 200; 500 kuruş

    1. Polis memuru

      Sivas · Calculated age 37 · 200 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Polis komiser muavini

      Sivas · Calculated age 37 · 500 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

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

02505001900/01AH 13181907/08AH 13251900/01 (AH 1318) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 30 · 150 kuruş1901/02 (AH 1319) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 31 · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1902/03 (AH 1320) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 32 · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1903/04 (AH 1321) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 33 · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1904/05 (AH 1322) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 34 · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1905/06 (AH 1323) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 35 · 150 kuruş · Source-bounded service1905/06 (AH 1323) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 35 · 200 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 36 · 200 kuruş · Source-bounded service1907/08 (AH 1325) · Polis memuru · Sivas · age 37 · 200 kuruş · Source-bounded service1907/08 (AH 1325) · Polis komiser muavini · Sivas · age 37 · 500 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1871/72 (AH 1288) [source]
Father’s occupation
Süvari jandarma çavuşu (müstafi) [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d.nr.00184, s.51 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
bilir [source]
Education
Rüştiye [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
30 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Sivas [source]
First-salary field
150 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
1900/01 (AH 1318) [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 Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 395

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