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Hafız Hamid Efendi

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka) · Dated entries 1865 to 1892 (AH 1282 to 1309)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd. 27-215

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

1Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)Zlatograd (Darıdere)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

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

  1. 1

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Mal Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 4 recorded years

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mal Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal Kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik nedeniyle ara

      Calculated age 21

  5. 5

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    1. Emlak kâtibi

      Calculated age 26

  6. 6

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years

    Didymoteicho (Dimetoka)

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sancak muhasebesi memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Sancak muhasebesi memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 4 recorded years

    Zlatograd (Darıdere)

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mal müdür muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

    2. Mal müdür muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Zlatograd (Darıdere) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Zlatograd (Darıdere)

      Mal müdür muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 43

2 entries 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. 1865 to 1881 (AH 1282 to 1298)
  2. 1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1865 to 1870 (AH 1282 to 1286)
  2. 1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)
  3. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)
  4. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  5. 1875/76 (AH 1292)

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

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Dimetoka Medresesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Dimetokalı memurlar

    SİBEL EDEMEN · 2025 · Pages 117, 118

    BOA. DH. SAİDd. 27-215

Read the original source accounts · 21 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 · 15 dated years

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