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Emin Zihni Efendi

Birthplace: filibe Observed AH 1324

149-111-217Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Emin Zihni Efendi was born in Filibe in AH 1301. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Hudavendigar in AH 1322 (21 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1324 with Taahhut Memuru in Hudavendigar (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 1301
  2. AH 1322Birth-year difference: 21 AH years
  3. AH 1324Birth-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 1324

Taahhut Memuru · hudavendigar · 100 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1322 in hudavendigar. The first-salary field is 100 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1322 · 1904 labelRecorded first-work anchorhudavendigar
100 kuruş / month

AH 1324 · 1906 label

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

Places in this record

AH 1322 · 1904 labelRecorded first-work anchorhudavendigar
filibe: Locality linkage; agreedfilibehudavendigar: Locality linkage; agreedhudavendigar

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • 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
2 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
pazarcı
Recorded birth year
AH 1301
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 1322 · 1904 label
Place
hudavendigar
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)

  • Clerical and Administrative Staff
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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 wordingClerical and Administrative Staffseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 37474
Recorded source-year values: 1324
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingTaahhut Memurueda-memur · currentjob
source lines 38720
Recorded source-year values: 1324
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingTaahhut Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 38720
Recorded source-year values: 1324
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 64767
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 38720
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 38720
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 38720
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 38720
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 64767
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 37474
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1324 · AH
source lines 37474
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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
1906Taahhut MemuruOriginal: taahhut memuruhudavendigar100recovered
line 35141
  1. AH 1324 · 1906 label

    Taahhut Memuru

    Original title: taahhut memuru

    hudavendigar

    100 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 35141

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
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

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 (79)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1301recovered · dobirth
source lines 35141
birthPlacefiliberecovered · birthplace
source lines 35141
birthPlacefiliberecovered · birth_place
source lines 35141
birthProvincerumeli sarkirecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 35141
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 35141
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 35141
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 35141
apprenticeshipYears2recovered · mulazemet
source lines 35141
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 35141
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 35141
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 35141
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 35141
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 35141
fatherJobpazarcırecovered · fatherjob
source lines 35141
firstWorkH1322recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 35141
firstWorkG1904recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 35141
firstWorkPlacehudavendigarrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 35141
firstWorkSalary100recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 35141
birthLatitude42.12917699999999recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 35141
birthLongitude24.748640000000016recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 35141
nameEmin Zihni Efendiseptember · İsim
source lines 37474
birthH1301september · dobirth
source lines 37474
birthPlacefilibeseptember · birthplace
source lines 37474
birthProvincerumeli sarkiseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 37474
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 37474
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 37474
apprenticeshipYears2september · mulazemet
source lines 37474
apprenticeshipYears2september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 37474
apprenticeshipYears2september · internship
source lines 37474
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 37474
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 37474
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 37474
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 37474
firstWorkH1322september · firstjob_year
source lines 37474
firstWorkPlacehudavendigarseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 37474
firstWorkSalary100september · firstjob_wage
source lines 37474
birthLatitude42.12917699999999september · lat_birth_place
source lines 37474
birthLongitude24.748640000000016september · lon_birth_place
source lines 37474
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 37474
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 37474
nameEmin Zihni Efendiolder · İsim
source lines 42471
birthH1301older · dobirth
source lines 42471
birthPlacefilibeolder · birthplace
source lines 42471
birthProvincerumeli sarkiolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 42471
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 42471
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 42471
apprenticeshipYears2older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 42471
apprenticeshipYears2older · internship
source lines 42471
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 42471
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 42471
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 42471
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 42471
firstWorkH1322older · firstjob_year
source lines 42471
firstWorkPlacehudavendigarolder · firstjob_place
source lines 42471
firstWorkSalary100older · firstjob_wage
source lines 42471
birthLatitude42.12917699999999older · lat_birth_place
source lines 42471
birthLongitude24.748640000000016older · lon_birth_place
source lines 42471
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 42471
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 42471

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, “Emin Zihni Efendi”, archival reference 149-111-217, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-e4e1961775b52326/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-e4e1961775b52326/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.