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Hacı Mustafa Efendi

Born 1843/44 (AH 1259) · Sivas · Dated entries 1856 to 1884 (AH 1273 to 1301)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 4 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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Sivas

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.

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

  1. 1

    1843/44 (AH 1259)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Stajyer

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282) · 18 recorded years

    Sivas

    AH entries: 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Alaka kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Senedât ve İlâmat kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 40

      Recorded service ending

    All 19 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Mihrivefa nahiyesi

    Not yet located on the map: Mihrivefa nahiyesi

    1. Nahiye vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 42

1 entry 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 1882 (AH 1282 to 1299)
  2. Mihrivefa nahiyesi1
    1883/84 (AH 1301)
  3. Sivas vilayeti muhasebe kalemi1
    1856/57 (AH 1273)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Sivas250 to 400
  2. Mihrivefa nahiyesi300

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. 1871 to 1882 (AH 1288 to 1299)
  2. 1865 to 1869 (AH 1282 to 1285)
  3. 1869 to 1871 (AH 1286 to 1287)
  4. 1883/84 (AH 1301)
  5. 1856/57 (AH 1273)

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; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 157, 158

Read the original source accounts · 22 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 · 20 dated years

How to read the records

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