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Halil İsmet Efendi

Born 1852/53 (AH 1269) · Harput · Dated entries 1870 to 1898 (AH 1287 to 1315)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 74-146

The career, year by year

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

Follow 7 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.

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

Stage 1 of 7 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1852/53 (AH 1269)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    4. Ordu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. 4. Ordu kalemi memuru

      100 kuruşCalculated age 18

  3. 3

    1871/72 (AH 1288) · 17 recorded years

    4. Ordu

    AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu

    1. 4. Ordu kalemi memuru

      100 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. 4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 22 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    4. Ordu / 4. Ordu merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu; 4. Ordu merkezi

    1. 4. Ordu

      4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. 4. Ordu merkezi

      4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 36

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 3 recorded years

    4. Ordu merkezi

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu merkezi

    1. 4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. 4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    4. Ordu merkezi / 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu merkezi; 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube

    1. 4. Ordu merkezi

      4. Ordu kalemi 1. sınıf memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube

      4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube tahrirat memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 40

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 6 recorded years

    4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube

    1. 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube tahrirat memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    2. 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube mümeyyizi

      1,440 kuruşCalculated age 46

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

2 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. 4. Ordu19
    1870 to 1888 (AH 1287 to 1305)
  2. 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube7
    1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)
  3. 4. Ordu merkezi5
    1887 to 1892 (AH 1305 to 1309)

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. 4. Ordu100 to 1,200
  2. 4. Ordu Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi 2. Şube1,080 to 1,440
  3. 4. Ordu merkezi1,200

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. 1891 to 1898 (AH 1309 to 1315)
  2. 1885 to 1892 (AH 1303 to 1309)
  3. 1879 to 1886 (AH 1297 to 1303)
  4. 1871 to 1878 (AH 1288 to 1294)
  5. 1877 to 1880 (AH 1294 to 1297)
  6. 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)

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 Sıbyan mektebi; hususi muallim [source]

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 165, 166, 167

    BOA. DH. SAİD 74-146

Read the original source accounts · 40 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 · 29 dated years

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