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Muharrem Efendi

114_134; 263Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Muharrem Efendi was born in Balikesir in AH 1297. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Mihalic in AH 1316 (19 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1321 and 1322; it begins with Posta Memuru in Kutahya (287 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 114_134; 263

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1321–1322
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 58743, 60987

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 33881

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 33880
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 33881

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1321
    Source lines 58743
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1322
    Source lines 60987

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 32865
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 32866

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 32865
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 32866

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

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Life and career

2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1297
  2. AH 1316Birth-year difference: 19 AH years
  3. AH 1321–1322Birth-year difference: 24–25 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 1321

Posta Memuru · kutahya · 287 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1316 in Mihalic. The first-salary field is 287 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1316 · 1898 labelRecorded first-work anchorMihalic
0143.5287AH 1321AH 1322AH 1321 · 1903 label: 287 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · kutahyaAH 1322 · 1904 label: 287 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · kutahya

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1316 · 1898 labelRecorded first-work anchorMihalic
balikesir: Locality linkage; agreedbalikesirmihalic: Locality linkage; agreedmihalickutahya: Source coordinate on AH 1321 annual entry; ambiguouskutahya

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record
  • Locality record

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
5 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
cavus
Recorded birth year
AH 1297
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 1316 · 1898 label
Place
Mihalic
First-salary field
287 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.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Postal Service

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Posta Memuru
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionPostal Serviceseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1321–1322
Source lines 32865, 32866
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionPosta Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 33880, 33881
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionPosta Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 33880, 33881
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 58743
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 60987
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 33880
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 33881
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 33880
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 33881
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 33880
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 33881
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 33880
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 33881
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 33880
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 33881
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 33880
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 33881
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 33880
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 33881
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 33880
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 33881
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 33880
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 33881
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1321
Source lines 58743
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1322
Source lines 60987
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 32865
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 32866
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 32865
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 32866

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 · 2 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.

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All substantive source assertions (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1297recovered · dobirth
source lines 30833, 30834
birthPlacebalikesirrecovered · birthplace
source lines 30833, 30834
birthPlacebalikesirrecovered · birth_place
source lines 30833, 30834
birthProvincehudavendigarrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 30833, 30834
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 30833, 30834
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 30833, 30834
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 30833, 30834
apprenticeshipYears5recovered · mulazemet
source lines 30833, 30834
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 30833, 30834
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 30833, 30834
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 30833, 30834
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 30833, 30834
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 30833, 30834
fatherJobcavusrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 30833, 30834
fatherJobcavusrecovered · father_job
source lines 30833, 30834
firstWorkH1316recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 30833, 30834
firstWorkG1898recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 30833, 30834
firstWorkPlaceMihalicrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 30833, 30834
firstWorkSalary287recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 30833, 30834
birthLatitude39.652527000000035recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 30833, 30834
birthLongitude27.88831499999997recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 30833, 30834
nameMuharrem Efendi september · İsim
source lines 32865, 32866
birthH1297september · dobirth
source lines 32865, 32866
birthPlacebalikesirseptember · birthplace
source lines 32865, 32866
birthProvincehudavendigarseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 32865, 32866
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 32865, 32866
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 32865, 32866
apprenticeshipYears5september · mulazemet
source lines 32865, 32866
apprenticeshipYears5september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 32865, 32866
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 32865, 32866
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 32865, 32866
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 32865, 32866
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 32865, 32866
fatherJobcavusseptember · fatherjob
source lines 32865, 32866
firstWorkH1316september · firstjob_year
source lines 32865, 32866
firstWorkPlacemihalicseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 32865, 32866
firstWorkSalary287september · firstjob_wage
source lines 32865, 32866
birthLatitude39.652527000000035september · lat_birth_place
source lines 32865, 32866
birthLongitude27.88831499999997september · lon_birth_place
source lines 32865, 32866
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 32865, 32866
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 32865, 32866
nameMuharrem Efendi older · İsim
source lines 3455, 3456
birthH1297older · dobirth
source lines 3455, 3456
birthPlacebalikesirolder · birthplace
source lines 3455, 3456
birthProvincehudavendigarolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 3455, 3456
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 3455, 3456
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 3455, 3456
apprenticeshipYears5older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 3455, 3456
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 3455, 3456
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 3455, 3456
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 3455, 3456
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 3455, 3456
fatherJobcavusolder · fatherjob
source lines 3455, 3456
firstWorkH1316older · firstjob_year
source lines 3455, 3456
firstWorkPlacemihalicolder · firstjob_place
source lines 3455, 3456
firstWorkSalary287older · firstjob_wage
source lines 3455, 3456
birthLatitude39.652527000000035older · lat_birth_place
source lines 3455, 3456
birthLongitude27.88831499999997older · lon_birth_place
source lines 3455, 3456
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 3455, 3456
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 3455, 3456

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

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Muharrem Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 114_134; 263. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-a4f3a9c5d6e6098b/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 114_134; 263
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-a4f3a9c5d6e6098b/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.