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Hamdi Efendi

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Harput · Dated entries 1887 to 1910 (AH 1305 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, Armenian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 174-166

The career, year by year

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

Follow 5 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.

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

Stage 1 of 5 · Harput

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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

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Mamuratülaziz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Polis neferi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 9 recorded years

    Mamuratülaziz

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz

    1. Polis neferi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üçüncü komiser

      350 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 7 recorded years

    Mamuratülaziz

    AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mamuratülaziz

    1. İkinci sınıf komiser

      Calculated age 37

    2. İkinci sınıf komiser (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 43

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1908/09 (AH 1326) · 2 recorded years

    Zor

    AH entries: 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Üçüncü sınıf polis komiseri

      300 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. İkinci sınıf polis komiseri

      750 kuruşCalculated age 45

    All 4 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. Mamuratülaziz17
    1887 to 1908 (AH 1305 to 1325)
  2. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

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. Mamuratülaziz300 to 350
  2. Zor300 to 750

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. 1887 to 1897 (AH 1305 to 1314)
  2. 1901 to 1908 (AH 1319 to 1325)
  3. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  5. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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 Harput sıbyan, mülkî rüşdiye ve askerî rüşdiye [source]

Qualification Şehadetname almadan ayrıldı [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 81, 82

    BOA. DH. SAİD 174-166

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 · 19 dated years

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