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Hafız Mehmed Paşa

Born 1846/47 (AH 1263) · Balyüzü karyesi · Dated entries 1864 to 1892 (AH 1281 to 1309)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

ErzurumShkodër (İşkodra)Durrës (Dıraç)ZorBasra
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Balyüzü karyesi

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1846/47 (AH 1263)

    Balyüzü karyesi

    Not yet located on the map: Balyüzü karyesi

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Erzurum Vilâyeti Mektûbî Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Erzurum Vilâyeti Mektûbî Kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. çırak

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282) · 7 recorded years

    Erzurum Vilâyeti Mektûbî Kalemi

    AH entries: 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Erzurum Vilâyeti Mektûbî Kalemi

    1. çırak

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. çırak

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Erzurum

    1. Evrak Müdürü

      Calculated age 26

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Anadolu ordusu

    Not yet located on the map: Anadolu ordusu

    1. Umum Anadolu ordu-yı hümayun tahrirat-ı mühimme memuru

      Calculated age 33

  6. 6

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Mektupçu

      Calculated age 34

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Durrës (Dıraç)

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 35

  8. 8

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Berat

    Not yet located on the map: Berat

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 42

  9. 9

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Zor / Basra

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Zor

      Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 46

    2. Basra

      Vali

      Calculated age 46

6 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

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Erzurum Vilâyeti Mektûbî Kalemi8
    1864 to 1872 (AH 1281 to 1288)
  2. Anadolu ordusu1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)
  3. 1891/92 (AH 1309)
  4. Berat1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)
  5. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  6. 1872/73 (AH 1289)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1864 to 1872 (AH 1281 to 1288)
  2. 1880 to 1892 (AH 1298 to 1309)
  3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  4. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
  5. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  6. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Kemal Paşazâde Said Bey Terâcim-i Ahvâl-ı Muâsırîn

    FİLİZ ANADOL · 2005 · Pages 119, 120

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 · 14 dated years

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