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Hafız Osman Efendi

Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Kemah · Dated entries 1877 to 1900 (AH 1294 to 1317)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.139/97

The career, year by year

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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.

1KemahBeirut (Beyrut)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Kemah

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1859/60 (AH 1276)

    Kemah

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Beirut (Beyrut)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Rüsumat Nezareti tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Batı Trakya / Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Batı Trakya; Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti

    1. Batı Trakya

      Rüsumat Nezareti memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti

      tahrirat kalemi memuru

      450 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti

    1. tahrirat kalemi memuru

      450 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. tahrirat kalemi memuru

      480 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 22

  6. 6

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. İstifa

      Calculated age 25

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 3 recorded years

    Mecralharir

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mecralharir

    1. kaza tahrirat kâtibi

      355 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. kaza tahrirat kâtibi (Nakil)

      Calculated age 30

      Recorded service ending

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Milhur

    Not yet located on the map: Milhur

    1. kaza tahrirat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

  9. 9

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 3 recorded years

    Kiril Sancağı

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kiril Sancağı

    1. Tahrirat Müdürü muavini

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 38

    2. Tahrirat Müdürü muavini

      900 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Kiril Sancağı / Kayıntara

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kiril Sancağı; Kayıntara

    1. Kiril Sancağı

      Tahrirat Müdürü muavini

      900 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kayıntara

      kaza tahrirat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 41

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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. Kiril Sancağı4
    1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
  2. Mecralharir3
    1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  3. Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti2
    1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. Batı Trakya1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)
  5. 1877/78 (AH 1294)
  6. Kayıntara1
    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

The six most recorded places. 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. Kiril Sancağı900 to 1,000
  2. Mecralharir355
  3. Batı Trakya Rüsumat Nezareti360 to 480
  4. Batı Trakya300
  5. Kayıntara300
  6. Milhur300

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. 1886 to 1900 (AH 1304 to 1317)
  2. 1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
  3. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  5. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  6. 1877/78 (AH 1294)

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 Kemah sıbyan mektebi; Kemah rüştiye mektebi [source]

Qualification Hafız [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 58, 59

    63 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.139/97.

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 13 dated years

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