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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Edmun Polikar Fransuva Ros Terziyan

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1881 to 1891 (AH 1299 to 1308)

Languages French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 7 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Batumi (Batum)Adana
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Kosova

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova

    1. Kosova vilayeti tercümanı

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 18

  4. 4

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Kosova / Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kosova; Location not recorded

    1. Kosova

      Kosova vilayeti tercümanı

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 19

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Batumi (Batum)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Batum başşehbenderliği kançılar vekili

      200 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Batum başşehbenderliği kançılar

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 20

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Batumi (Batum) / Poti (Faş) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Poti (Faş); Location not recorded

    1. Batumi (Batum)

      Batum başşehbenderliği kançılar

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 21

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Adana / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Adana

      Adana İdadisi Fransızca muallimi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 26

    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. 1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  2. Kosova2
    1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  5. Poti (Faş)1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)

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. Batumi (Batum)200 to 1,000
  2. Kosova1,080
  3. Adana300 to 600

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. 1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  2. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  3. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  5. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  6. 1890/91 (AH 1308)

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; Âlâ dereceli siyasiye şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling İbtidai; Mekteb-i Sultanî; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • French · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Italian · Tekellüm [source]
  • Rum (as recorded) · Tekellüm [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 267, 268

Read the original source accounts · 20 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 · 6 dated years

How to read the records

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