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Hurşid Ziya Bey

Born 1876/77 (AH 1293) · Pristina (Priştine) · Dated entries 1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)

Languages Bulgarian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 125-105

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

1Pristina (Priştine)Gjilan (Gilan)Kriva Palanka (Eğri Palanka)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Pristina (Priştine)

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. 1

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Pristina (Priştine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 3 recorded years

    Pristina (Priştine)

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muhasebe Kalemi stajyeri (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

    2. Sandık emini

      486 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Pristina (Priştine) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Pristina (Priştine)

      Sandık emini

      486 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Görevin sona ermesi

      Calculated age 25

  4. 4

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Pristina (Priştine) / Place not recorded / Gjilan (Gilan)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Pristina (Priştine)

      Muhasebe Kalemi stajyeri (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 26

      Recorded service ending

    2. Gjilan (Gilan)

      Mal Müdürü Vekili

      Calculated age 26

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Gjilan (Gilan) / Kriva Palanka (Eğri Palanka)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Gjilan (Gilan)

      Mal Müdürü Vekili

      Calculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kriva Palanka (Eğri Palanka)

      Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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. 1897 to 1902 (AH 1315 to 1319)
  2. 1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)
  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

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. 1897 to 1902 (AH 1315 to 1319)
  2. 1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)
  3. 1900/01 (AH 1318)
  4. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

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; İlk mektep ve rüştiye diplomaları [1]

Schooling Priştine İlk Mektebi; Priştine Rüştiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Priştineli memurlar

    ÖMER CAN · 2023 · Pages 154, 155

    BOA, DH. SAİD. d, 125-105

Read the original source accounts · 15 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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