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Hafız Bekir Sıtkı Efendi

Born 1853/54 (AH 1270) · Sivas · Dated entries 1878 to 1892 (AH 1296 to 1309)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d,nr.00102,s.59

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1SivasEğirdirYalvaçAkşehir
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Sivas

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.

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

  1. 1

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Penric

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Penric

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. Aşar memuru (stajyer)

      600 kuruşCalculated age 26

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Penric

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Penric

    1. Aşar memuru (stajyer)

      600 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aşar memuru (stajyer) (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 27

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Hassa

    Not yet located on the map: Hassa

    1. Aşar Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 29

  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Hassa / Bulanık

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hassa; Bulanık

    1. Hassa

      Aşar Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bulanık

      Aşar Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Bulanık

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bulanık

    1. Aşar Memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aşar memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 32

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Eğirdir

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi memuru

      475 kuruşCalculated age 35

  8. 8

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Eğirdir / Yalvaç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Eğirdir

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi memuru

      475 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yalvaç

      Telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years

    Yalvaç

    AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Yalvaç / Akşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Yalvaç

      Telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Akşehir

      Telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 39

    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. 1888 to 1892 (AH 1306 to 1309)
  2. Bulanık3
    1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
  3. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  4. Hassa2
    1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  5. Penric2
    1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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. Bulanık600
  2. Hassa600
  3. Penric600

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. 1881 to 1885 (AH 1299 to 1302)
  2. 1888 to 1892 (AH 1306 to 1309)
  3. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)

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 Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Qualification Arapça sarf, nahiv; Farsça Gülistan [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 159, 160

    270 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00102,s.59

Read the original source accounts · 19 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 · 11 dated years

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