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Emin Bey

Born 1853/54 (AH 1270) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1871 to 1886 (AH 1288 to 1303)

Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish

Follow 8 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Sofia (Sofya)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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.

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

  1. 1

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 6 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      175 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      Calculated age 26

    2. Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      600 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Sofia (Sofya)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası mülazımı

      600 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sofia (Sofya)

      Bulgaristan Komiserliği Türkçe tahrirat memuru ve mütercimi

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 29

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Sofia (Sofya) / Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded / Golos

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Golos

    1. Sofia (Sofya)

      Bulgaristan Komiserliği Türkçe tahrirat memuru ve mütercimi

      2,500 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Golos

      Golos şehbenderi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Golos

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Golos

    1. Golos şehbenderi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Golos şehbenderi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Golos / Tahran

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Golos; Tahran

    1. Golos

      Golos şehbenderi

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahran

      Tahran Sefareti başkâtibi

      2,400 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

The career, year by year

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

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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. 1871 to 1883 (AH 1288 to 1300)
  2. Golos4
    1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  3. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  4. Tahran1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)

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. Golos2,000
  2. Tahran2,400

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. 1871 to 1882 (AH 1288 to 1299)
  2. 1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  3. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  5. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  6. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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; Fatih Rüşdiyesi; Mahrec-i Aklâm; Hukuk Mektebi [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. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 164, 165

Read the original source accounts · 26 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 · 15 dated years

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