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Hafız Âgâh Efendi

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Kilis · Dated entries 1869 to 1904 (AH 1286 to 1321)

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 9 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.

1KilisAleppo (Halep)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Kilis

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

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Kilis

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Aleppo (Halep)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Telgrafhane üçüncü muhabere memuru

      375 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 18 recorded years

    Aleppo (Halep)

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgrafhane üçüncü muhabere memuru

      375 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane başmüdüriyet kâtibi

      700 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    All 27 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Aleppo (Halep) / Diyarbekir ciheti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir ciheti

    1. Aleppo (Halep)

      Telgrafhane başmüdüriyet kâtibi (Nakil)

      Calculated age 39

      Recorded service ending

    2. Diyarbekir ciheti

      Telgraf ve posta müfettişi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 6 recorded years

    Diyarbekir ciheti

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir ciheti

    1. Telgraf ve posta müfettişi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve posta müfettişi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Diyarbekir ciheti / Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir ciheti; Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

    1. Diyarbekir ciheti

      Telgraf ve posta müfettişi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

      Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 46

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1895/96 (AH 1313) · 6 recorded years

    Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

    AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

    1. Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 52

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri / Aleppo (Halep)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

    1. Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri

      Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü (Nakil)

      Calculated age 53

      Recorded service ending

    2. Aleppo (Halep)

      Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 53

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 2 recorded years

    Aleppo (Halep)

    AH entries: 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 54

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve posta başmüdürü

      2,450 kuruşCalculated age 55

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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. 1869 to 1904 (AH 1286 to 1321)
  2. Diyarbekir ciheti8
    1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312)
  3. Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri8
    1894 to 1902 (AH 1312 to 1319)

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. Aleppo (Halep)375 to 2,450
  2. Diyarbekir ciheti2,000
  3. Diyarbekir ve Ma'mûrâtü'l-Azîz vilayetleri2,250 to 2,500

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. 1876 to 1888 (AH 1293 to 1305)
  2. 1894 to 1904 (AH 1312 to 1321)
  3. 1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312)
  4. 1871 to 1877 (AH 1288 to 1293)
  5. 1869 to 1872 (AH 1286 to 1288)
  6. 1869/70 (AH 1286)

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 Mekâtib-i âdiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicili Ahval kayıtlarına göre Kilisli memurlar

    MEHMET YILMAZ · 2022 · Pages 46, 47, 48

Read the original source accounts · 55 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 · 36 dated years

How to read the records

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