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Mehmet Ali Efendi 3

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Sinop · Dated entries 1885/86 (AH 1303)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d 78-188

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1885/86 (AH 1303): Azil, place unspecifiedAH 1303
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    1 distinct dated year. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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    1Sinop
    ● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

    Stage 1 of 3 · Sinop

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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.

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

    1. 1

      1865/66 (AH 1282)

      Sinop

      1. Birth

    2. 2

      1879/80 (AH 1297)

      Sinop

      1. First work as recorded

        Calculated age 15

    3. 3

      1885/86 (AH 1303)

      Place not recorded

      Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

      1. Azil

        Calculated age 21

    4 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 only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

    Pay over time

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    Current collection salary comparison

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    Education and personal record

    Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Şahadetname [1]

    Schooling Sinop Sıbyan Mektebi; Mekteb-i Rüşdiye [source]

    Language skills and historical terms

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

    • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]

    Honours and other personal details

    Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
    1 (recorded code) [source]
    All personal fields and their sources

    Personal details

    Birthplace
    Sinop [source]
    Birth year
    1865/66 (AH 1282) [source]
    Archive references
    BOA. DH. SAİD. d 78-188 [1]

    Education and languages

    Turkish
    Kitâbet [source]okuryazar [1]
    Qualification
    Formal qualification recorded [source]Şahadetname [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
    Education
    Sinop Sıbyan Mektebi; Mekteb-i Rüşdiye [source]
    Education level equivalent
    7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

    First work and apprenticeship

    Age at first service
    15 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
    First work place
    Sinop [source]
    First work year
    1879/80 (AH 1297) [source]

    Other recorded details

    Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
    1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

    Sources and evidence

    1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi'nde Sinoplu Devlet Adamları (Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre: 1879-1909 )

      ZEHRA DENİZ · 2019 · Pages 167

      BOA. DH. SAİD. d 78-188

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    Yearly entries and their source passages · 1 dated AH years

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