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Es-Seyyid Osman Hilmi Efendi

Born 1824/25 (AH 1240) · Bursa şehrinde Arap mahallesinde · Dated entries 1878 to 1896 (AH 1296 to 1313)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 72/52; 100

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.

Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Bursa şehrinde Arap mahallesinde

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.

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

  1. 1

    1824/25 (AH 1240)

    Bursa şehrinde Arap mahallesinde

    Not yet located on the map: Bursa şehrinde Arap mahallesinde

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 56

    2. Bilecik kazası niyâbeti

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 56

  3. 3

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası

    1. Bilecik kazası niyâbeti

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 57

  4. 4

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası; Location not recorded

    1. Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası

      Bilecik kazası niyâbeti

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 58

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 58

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Bâb-ı vâlâ-yı fetva-yı evrak kalemi müdiriyeti

      830 kuruşCalculated age 59

    2. Bâb-ı vâlâ-yı fetva-yı evrak kalemi müdiriyeti

      1,100 kuruşCalculated age 60

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 8 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Career entry

      Calculated age 62

    2. Anadolu sadareti tezkirehane mukaddiliği

      98 kuruşCalculated age 69

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Place not recorded / Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Anadolu sadareti tezkirehane mukaddiliği

      98 kuruşCalculated age 70

    2. Bursa

      Bursa mevleviyeti

      5,035 kuruşCalculated age 70

  8. 8

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bursa mevleviyeti

      5,035 kuruşCalculated age 71

    2. Infisal

      Calculated age 71

  9. 9

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Anadolu sadareti tezkirehane mukaddiliği

      95.5 kuruşCalculated age 72

    2. Anadolu sadareti tezkirehane mukaddiliği

      152 kuruşCalculated age 73

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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. Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası3
    1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)
  2. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)

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. Hüdâvendigâr vilâyetinde Bilecik kazası1,250
  2. Bursa5,035

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. 1888 to 1896 (AH 1306 to 1313)
  2. 1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
  3. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1296 to 1298)
  4. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  5. 1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
  6. 1880 to 1894 (AH 1298 to 1311)

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 Kaza-yı mezkûre mekteb-i ibtidâîsi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 111,112,113

    72/52; 100

Read the original source accounts · 30 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 · 17 dated years

How to read the records

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