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Hacı Mehmet Dursun Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Erzincan · Dated entries 1889 to 1910 (AH 1307 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD, 222/186

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

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)Izmir (İzmir)Erzincan
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. jandarma neferi

      130 kuruş

  2. 2

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 4 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. bölük emini

      145 kuruş

    2. bölük emini (İstifa)

      Recorded service ending

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 3 recorded years

    unknown

    AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: unknown

    1. Polis

      300 kuruş

    2. polis (İstifa)

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Yenikapı / Mesure

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Yenikapı; Mesure

    1. Yenikapı

      karantina memuru

      250 kuruş

    2. Mesure

      karantina memuru

      300 kuruş

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Kamran

    Not yet located on the map: Kamran

    1. karantina memuru

      500 kuruş

  6. 6

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Izmir (İzmir)

    1. karantina memuru

      250 kuruş

  7. 7

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Izmir (İzmir) / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Izmir (İzmir)

      karantina memuru

      250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Tophane memuru

      350 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1908/09 (AH 1326) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tophane memuru

      350 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. birinci sınıf Tophane memuru

      500 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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

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. 1889 to 1910 (AH 1307 to 1327)
  2. unknown3
    1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  3. 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)
  4. Kamran1
    1898/99 (AH 1316)
  5. Mesure1
    1897/98 (AH 1315)
  6. Yenikapı1
    1897/98 (AH 1315)

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. unknown300
  2. Kamran500
  3. Mesure300
  4. Yenikapı250

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. 1890 to 1894 (AH 1308 to 1311)
  2. 1897 to 1908 (AH 1315 to 1325)
  3. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  4. 1907 to 1910 (AH 1325 to 1327)
  5. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  6. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Polislik şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mahalli ibtidaiye 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. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına Göre Erzincanlı memurlar

    ENGİN ADAK · 2008 · Pages 94, 95

    135 BOA, DH. SAİD, 222/186

Read the original source accounts · 23 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

How to read the records

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