Halil Efendi
Born 1884/85 (AH 1302) · Drama · Dated entries 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)
Languages French, Turkish
Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 140-287
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
Places and reading notes
- Drama
- Çeç
- Thessaloniki (Selanik)
4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.
The life
Halil Efendi was born in Drama in 1884/85 (AH 1302). The father’s occupation was mukavelat muharriri. Schooling included mahalli ibtidai; Drama mekteb-i idadi-i mülki. The language repertoire included French and Turkish. [1]
Service began in Drama in 1903/04 (AH 1321). Service included Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiz-i sanisi in Drama (1903/04 (AH 1321)). Later posts included Tahrirat katibi in Çeç (1905/06 (AH 1323)), Nafia katibi in Drama (1906/07 (AH 1324)) and Nafia katibi (beşinci şube) in Thessaloniki (Selanik) (1909/10 (AH 1327)). [1]
Life and career
Follow 4 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.
Stage 1 of 4 · Drama
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.
1 1884/85 (AH 1302)
Drama
Birth
2 First work as recorded
Calculated age 19
Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiz-i sanisi
84 kuruşCalculated age 19
3 1905/06 (AH 1323) · 2 recorded years
Drama / Çeç
AH entries: 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Çeç
Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiz-i sanisi (Nakil)
Calculated age 21
Recorded service ending
Çeç
Tahrirat katibi
135 kuruşCalculated age 21
Çeç
Tahrirat katibi (Nakil)
Calculated age 22
Recorded service ending
Nafia katibi
300 kuruşCalculated age 22
4 1909/10 (AH 1327)
Thessaloniki (Selanik)
Nafia katibi (beşinci şube)
400 kuruşCalculated age 25
4 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.
- Nafia katibi · Thessaloniki (Selanik) · Undated · 600 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
- Nafia katibi (açıkta maaşlı) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated · 400 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
- Nafia katibi (açıkta maaşlı) (İnfisal) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
- mazul (Azil) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
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
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 amountsSelect 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 entriesGaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Drama84 to 300
- Çeç135
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 titleThe 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
All personal fields and their sources
Personal details
Education and languages
First work and apprenticeship
- Age at first service
- 19 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
- First work place
- Drama [source]
- First-salary field
- 84 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
- First work year
- 1903/04 (AH 1321) [source]
Sources and evidence
- Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dramalı devlet adamları
HÜSEYİN ZEYNO · 2026 · Pages 64, 65
BOA. DH. SAİDd., 140-287; 148 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 140-287.
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