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Mehmet Ziyaeddin Efendi

Birthplace: dersaadet Observed AH 1325

148-181-357Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Ziyaeddin Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1302. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1320 (18 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with Muhabere Memuru in Dersaadet (100 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1302
  2. AH 1320Birth-year difference: 18 AH years
  3. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 23 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1325

Muhabere Memuru · dersaadet · 100 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1320 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 100 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1320 · 1902 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
100 kuruş / month

AH 1325 · 1907 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1320 · 1902 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1325 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadet

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
5 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Yuzbasi
Recorded birth year
AH 1302
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1320 · 1902 label
Place
istanbul
First-salary field
100 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Further biographical evidence

Source wording and status assertions

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes

These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingCommunication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 37322
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
source lines 38561
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 38561
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65639
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38561
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38561
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38561
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38561
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65639
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 37322
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 37322
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.

Every displayed annual entry. Select a year to inspect its salary, title, place and source together.
Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1907Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memurudersaadet100recovered
line 34991
  1. AH 1325 · 1907 label

    Muhabere Memuru

    Original title: muhabere memuru

    dersaadet

    100 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 34991

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Outside the paper sample
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1302recovered · dobirth
source lines 34991
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
source lines 34991
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 34991
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 34991
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 34991
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 34991
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 34991
apprenticeshipYears5recovered · mulazemet
source lines 34991
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 34991
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 34991
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 34991
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 34991
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 34991
fatherJobYuzbasirecovered · fatherjob
source lines 34991
fatherJobyuzbasirecovered · father_job
source lines 34991
firstWorkH1320recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 34991
firstWorkG1902recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 34991
firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 34991
firstWorkSalary100recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 34991
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 34991
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 34991
nameMehmet Ziyaeddin Efendi september · İsim
source lines 37322
birthH1302september · dobirth
source lines 37322
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 37322
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 37322
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 37322
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 37322
apprenticeshipYears5september · mulazemet
source lines 37322
apprenticeshipYears5september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 37322
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 37322
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 37322
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 37322
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 37322
fatherJobyuzbasiseptember · fatherjob
source lines 37322
firstWorkH1320september · firstjob_year
source lines 37322
firstWorkPlaceistanbulseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 37322
firstWorkSalary100september · firstjob_wage
source lines 37322
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 37322
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 37322
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 37322
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 37322
nameMehmet Ziyaeddin Efendi older · İsim
source lines 33700
birthH1302older · dobirth
source lines 33700
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 33700
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 33700
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 33700
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 33700
apprenticeshipYears5older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 33700
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 33700
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 33700
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 33700
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 33700
fatherJobyuzbasiolder · fatherjob
source lines 33700
firstWorkH1320older · firstjob_year
source lines 33700
firstWorkPlaceistanbulolder · firstjob_place
source lines 33700
firstWorkSalary100older · firstjob_wage
source lines 33700
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 33700
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 33700
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 33700
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 33700

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Ziyaeddin Efendi”, archival reference 148-181-357, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-c9c9bc844dd22ea0/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-c9c9bc844dd22ea0/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.