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Hıfzı Paşa

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Thessaloniki (Selanik) · Dated entries 1860 to 1909 (AH 1277 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA SAD 1/70; BOA SAD 1/71

The career, year by year

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

Follow 16 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.

1Thessaloniki (Selanik)Istanbul (Dersaadet)Serres (Siroz)Strumica (Ustrumca)AydınDramaKorçë (Görice)Gjirokastër (Ergiri)Mytilene (Midilli)Chios (Sakız)Bitola (Manastır)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 16 · Thessaloniki (Selanik)

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

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Thessaloniki (Selanik)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Meclis-i Vâlâ Mazbata Odası çırağ

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Thessaloniki (Selanik)

    1. Meclis-i Muvakkat kitabeti

      Calculated age 18

  4. 4

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Thessaloniki (Selanik)

    1. Evrak Müdürü

      Calculated age 21

  5. 5

    1867/68 (AH 1284) · 2 recorded years

    Serres (Siroz)

    AH entries: 1284, 1285. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mutasarrıf muavini

      Calculated age 22

    2. Mutasarrıf muavini (İstifa)

      Calculated age 23

      Recorded service ending

  6. 6

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Strumica (Ustrumca)

    1. Kaymakam

      Calculated age 25

  7. 7

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Umur-ı Cezaiye memuru

      Calculated age 27

  8. 8

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Serres (Siroz)

    1. Tahrir-i Emlak memuru

      Calculated age 29

  9. 9

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Aydın

    1. Merkez mutasarrıfı (Azil)

      Calculated age 38

      Recorded service ending

  10. 10

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Drama

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 41

  11. 11

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Korçë (Görice)

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 46

  12. 12

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Gjirokastër (Ergiri) / Mytilene (Midilli)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Gjirokastër (Ergiri)

      Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 48

    2. Mytilene (Midilli)

      Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 48

  13. 13

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Chios (Sakız)

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 55

  14. 14

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Kal'a-i Sultaniye

    Not yet located on the map: Kal'a-i Sultaniye

    1. Mutasarrıf

      Calculated age 56

  15. 15

    1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years

    Bitola (Manastır)

    AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    1. Vali

      Calculated age 62

    2. Vali

      Calculated age 63

      Continuing service as described

  16. 16

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Bitola (Manastır) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Bitola (Manastır)

      Vali

      Calculated age 64

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 64

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. 1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)
  2. 1867 to 1875 (AH 1284 to 1291)
  3. 1863 to 1867 (AH 1280 to 1283)
  4. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  5. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  6. 1892/93 (AH 1310)

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. 1885 to 1901 (AH 1303 to 1318)
  2. 1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)
  3. 1866/67 (AH 1283)
  4. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  5. 1863/64 (AH 1280)
  6. 1860/61 (AH 1277)

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 Selanik Rüşdiye 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. Kemal Paşazâde Said Bey Terâcim-i Ahvâl-ı Muâsırîn

    FİLİZ ANADOL · 2005 · Pages 32, 33

    ¹⁰ Selânik Rüşdiye Mektebi'nde ilimlere giriş dersi ve Hutut'u tahsil etmiştir. Türkçe yazar. (BOA SAD 1/70) 24; ²¹ 10 Receb 1310 tarihinde Ergiri; Midilli'nin yerel yapısı ve halkın diline vakıf olması ve memuriyetinin değiştirilmesi arzuhali üzerine 24 Şevval 1310 (29 Nisan 1309) tarihinde Midilli mutasarrıflıklarına nakl edilmiştir. Midilli'ye gönderilen tahkik heyetinin layihası ve bazı durumlardan ötürü memuriyetini sürdürmesi uygun olmadığından 17 Ramazan 1317 (6 Kânun-ı sânî 1315) maaş-ı halisi ve becayiş suretiyle Sakız Sancağı mutasarrıflığına nakl edilmiştir. (BOA SAD 1/70); 22 Zlhicce 1306 Yunan Devleti tarafından Krado Ofisiye nişanının altın madalyası verilmiştir. 6 Şevval 1311'de terfian Rumeli Beylerbeyi payesi tevcih; 5 Receb 1315'de tebdilen ikinci, 10 Safer 1317'de birinci rütbeden Osmanî nişanı ihsan buyurulmuştur. (BOA SAD 1/70) 7 Rebiü'lâhir 1320'de Almanya Devleti tarafından ikinci rütbeden Koron Döpros; 8 Zilhicce 1320'de İtalya Devleti tarafından ikinci rütbeden Koron Ditali nişanları ita buyurulmuştur. Hamidiye Hicaz demiryolu inşa masrafları için para yardımında bulunması üzerine 29 Zilhicce 1321'de gümüş Hicaz demiryolu madalyası ihsan olunmuştur. (BOA SAD 1/71) 25

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