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Dikran Arakliyan Efendi

Born 1851/52 (AH 1268) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1877 to 1911 (AH 1294 to 1328)

Languages Armenian, French, Turkish

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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Beyoğlu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Beyoğlu / Beyoğlu Telgraf Merkezi / Galata İttihad Postahanesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Beyoğlu Telgraf Merkezi; Galata İttihad Postahanesi

    1. Beyoğlu

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. Galata İttihad Postahanesi

      Taahhüt Memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1878 (AH 1295) · 4 recorded years

    Galata İttihad Postahanesi

    AH entries: 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Galata İttihad Postahanesi

    1. Taahhüt Memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taahhüt Memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Galata Postahanesi

    Not yet located on the map: Galata Postahanesi

    1. Mekatib-i mevrude ve mersule memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

  5. 5

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Galata Postahanesi

    Not yet located on the map: Galata Postahanesi

    1. İade ve taahhüd-i mekatib memuru

      700 kuruşCalculated age 37

  6. 6

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 15 recorded years

    Galata Postahanesi

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Galata Postahanesi

    1. İttihad-ı mersule ve yol idaresi başmemuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. İttihad-ı mersule ve yol idaresi başmemuru

      900 kuruşCalculated age 55

    All 20 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. İttihat dairesi başmemuru

      1,300 kuruşCalculated age 59

  8. 8

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Beyoğlu

    1. Posta Başmemuru

      1,300 kuruşCalculated age 60

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.

The career, year by year

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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. Galata Postahanesi17
    1881 to 1906 (AH 1299 to 1323)
  2. Galata İttihad Postahanesi5
    1877 to 1881 (AH 1294 to 1298)
  3. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
  4. Beyoğlu Telgraf Merkezi1
    1877/78 (AH 1294)
  5. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. Galata Postahanesi500 to 900
  2. Galata İttihad Postahanesi160 to 400
  3. Beyoğlu Telgraf Merkezi200

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. 1891 to 1906 (AH 1309 to 1323)
  2. 1877 to 1881 (AH 1294 to 1298)
  3. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  5. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  6. 1877/78 (AH 1294)

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 Özel okul [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre İstanbul doğumlu Ermeni devlet adamları

    HARUN TUNCA · 2016 · Pages 131, 132

    DH. SAİD 63/61; DH. SAİD 63/61; 170 DH. SAİD d. nr. 62/253 s. 253; DH. SAİD d. nr. 62/253 s. 253

Read the original source accounts · 32 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 · 24 dated years

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