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Henry Kitasyoli Efendi.

Birthplace: dersaadet Observed AH 1321

118-75-146Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Henry Kitasyoli Efendi. was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1298. Recorded schooling includes 4 years at Sibyan Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1320 (22 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1321 with Mesalihi Kalemi in Istanbul (150 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing); Italian: Kitabet (writing); Rum: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 118-75-146

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

October annual indicator
0
Additional October code
0
Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1321
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 59076

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 36085

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 36085

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1321
    Source lines 59076

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 34968

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 34968

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

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Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1298
  2. AH 1320Birth-year difference: 22 AH years
  3. AH 1321Birth-year difference: 23 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

2 of 3

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1321

Mesalihi Kalemi · istanbul · 150 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1320 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 150 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1320 · 1902 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
150 kuruş / month

AH 1321 · 1903 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1320 · 1902 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1321 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadet

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Sibyan Mektebi
Schooling duration
4 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
1 source-recorded year
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Esnaf
Recorded birth year
AH 1298
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1320 · 1902 label
Place
istanbul
First-salary field
150 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

4 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
French
Kitabet (writing)
Italian
Kitabet (writing)
Rum
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Clerical and Administrative Staff

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Mesalihi Kalemi
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionClerical and Administrative Staffseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1321
Source lines 34968
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMesalihi Kalemieda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 36085
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMesalihi Kalemieda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 36085
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 59076
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 36085
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 36085
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 36085
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 36085
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 36085
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 36085
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 36085
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 36085
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 36085
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1321
Source lines 59076
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 34968
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 34968
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Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1903Mesalihi KalemiOriginal: mesalihi kalemiistanbul150recovered
line 32852
  1. AH 1321 · 1903 label

    Mesalihi Kalemi

    Original title: mesalihi kalemi

    istanbul

    150 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 32852

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 1 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (86)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1298recovered · dobirth
source lines 32852
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
source lines 32852
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 32852
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 32852
schoolSibyan Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 32852
schoolingYears4recovered · education_year
source lines 32852
schoolingYears4recovered · school_year
source lines 32852
apprenticeshipYears1recovered · mulazemet
source lines 32852
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 32852
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 32852
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 32852
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 32852
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 32852
fatherJobEsnafrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 32852
fatherJobesnafrecovered · father_job
source lines 32852
firstWorkH1320recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 32852
firstWorkG1902recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 32852
firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 32852
firstWorkSalary150recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 32852
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 32852
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 32852
nameHenry Kitasyoli Efendi.september · İsim
source lines 34968
birthH1298september · dobirth
source lines 34968
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 34968
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 34968
schoolsibyan mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 34968
schoolingYears4september · education_year
source lines 34968
apprenticeshipYears1september · mulazemet
source lines 34968
apprenticeshipYears1september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 34968
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 34968
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 34968
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 34968
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 34968
fatherJobesnafseptember · fatherjob
source lines 34968
firstWorkH1320september · firstjob_year
source lines 34968
firstWorkPlaceistanbulseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 34968
firstWorkSalary150september · firstjob_wage
source lines 34968
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 34968
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 34968
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 34968
language:FrenchKitabetseptember · lang_french
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:French2september · lang_french2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 34968
language:ItalianKitabetseptember · lang_italian
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Italian2september · lang_italian2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 34968
language:RumKitabetseptember · lang_rum
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Rum2september · lang_rum2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 34968
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 34968
nameHenry Kitasyoli Efendi.older · İsim
source lines 28795
birthH1298older · dobirth
source lines 28795
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 28795
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 28795
schoolsibyan mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 28795
schoolingYears4older · education_year
source lines 28795
apprenticeshipYears1older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 28795
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 28795
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 28795
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 28795
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 28795
fatherJobesnafolder · fatherjob
source lines 28795
firstWorkH1320older · firstjob_year
source lines 28795
firstWorkPlaceistanbulolder · firstjob_place
source lines 28795
firstWorkSalary150older · firstjob_wage
source lines 28795
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 28795
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 28795
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 28795
language:FrenchKitabetolder · lang_french
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:French2older · lang_french2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 28795
language:ItalianKitabetolder · lang_italian
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Italian2older · lang_italian2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 28795
language:RumKitabetolder · lang_rum
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Rum2older · lang_rum2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 28795
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 28795

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Henry Kitasyoli Efendi.”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 118-75-146. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-ba8790b1acbab132/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 118-75-146
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-ba8790b1acbab132/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.