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Mustafa Zeki Efendi

Birthplace: tirnova Observed AH 1312

79_76; 149Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mustafa Zeki Efendi was born in Tirnova in AH 1294. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Bilecik in AH 1311 (17 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1312 with Memur in Ertugrul (50 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1294
  2. AH 1311Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
  3. AH 1312Birth-year difference: 18 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1312

Memur · ertugrul · 50 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1311 in Bilecik. The first-salary field is 50 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1311 · 1893 labelRecorded first-work anchorBilecik
50 kuruş / month

AH 1312 · 1894 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1311 · 1893 labelRecorded first-work anchorBilecik
tirnova: Locality linkage; agreedtirnovabilecik: Locality linkage; agreedbilecikertugrul: Locality linkage; agreedertugrul

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
1 source-recorded year
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
cavus
Recorded birth year
AH 1294
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1311 · 1893 label
Place
Bilecik
First-salary field
50 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Further biographical evidence

Source wording and status assertions

Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes

These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMemureda-memur · currentjob
source lines 63533
Recorded source-year values: 1312
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMemureda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 63533
Recorded source-year values: 1312
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 37447
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 63533
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 63533
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 63533
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 63533
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 37447
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 61314
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
source lines 61314
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.

Every displayed annual entry. Select a year to inspect its salary, title, place and source together.
Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1894MemurOriginal: memurertugrul50recovered
line 58154
  1. AH 1312 · 1894 label

    Memur

    Original title: memur

    ertugrul

    50 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 58154

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 1 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

About the edition, calendars and selection

All substantive source assertions (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1294recovered · dobirth
source lines 58154
birthPlacetirnovarecovered · birthplace
source lines 58154
birthPlacetirnovarecovered · birth_place
source lines 58154
birthProvincetunarecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 58154
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 58154
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 58154
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 58154
apprenticeshipYears1recovered · mulazemet
source lines 58154
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 58154
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 58154
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 58154
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 58154
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 58154
fatherJobcavusrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 58154
fatherJobcavusrecovered · father_job
source lines 58154
firstWorkH1311recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 58154
firstWorkG1893recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 58154
firstWorkPlaceBilecikrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 58154
firstWorkSalary50recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 58154
birthLatitude43.077227recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 58154
birthLongitude25.618382recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 58154
nameMustafa Zeki Efendi september · İsim
source lines 61314
birthH1294september · dobirth
source lines 61314
birthPlacetirnovaseptember · birthplace
source lines 61314
birthProvincetunaseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 61314
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 61314
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 61314
apprenticeshipYears1september · mulazemet
source lines 61314
apprenticeshipYears1september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 61314
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 61314
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 61314
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 61314
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 61314
fatherJobcavusseptember · fatherjob
source lines 61314
firstWorkH1311september · firstjob_year
source lines 61314
firstWorkPlacebilecikseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 61314
firstWorkSalary50september · firstjob_wage
source lines 61314
birthLatitude43.077227september · lat_birth_place
source lines 61314
birthLongitude25.618382september · lon_birth_place
source lines 61314
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 61314
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 61314
nameMustafa Zeki Efendi older · İsim
source lines 64270
birthH1294older · dobirth
source lines 64270
birthPlacetirnovaolder · birthplace
source lines 64270
birthProvincetunaolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 64270
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 64270
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 64270
apprenticeshipYears1older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 64270
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 64270
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 64270
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 64270
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 64270
fatherJobcavusolder · fatherjob
source lines 64270
firstWorkH1311older · firstjob_year
source lines 64270
firstWorkPlacebilecikolder · firstjob_place
source lines 64270
firstWorkSalary50older · firstjob_wage
source lines 64270
birthLatitude43.077227older · lat_birth_place
source lines 64270
birthLongitude25.618382older · lon_birth_place
source lines 64270
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 64270
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 64270

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mustafa Zeki Efendi”, archival reference 79_76; 149, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-9837a09043d1e790/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-9837a09043d1e790/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.