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Hacı Mehmed Hamdi Efendi

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Kütahya, Meydan Mahallesi · Dated entries 1911 (AH 1329)

Languages Turkish

Archival references İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2052.151/9/2; İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2046.150/21/1

The career, year by year

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

1911 (AH 1329): Nahiye naibi, BanazAH 1329
Places and reading notes
  • Banaz

1 distinct dated year. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 2 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.

Kütahya
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Kütahya, Meydan Mahallesi

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Kütahya, Meydan Mahallesi

    Not yet located on the map: Kütahya, Meydan Mahallesi

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Banaz

    Not yet located on the map: Banaz

    1. Nahiye naibi

      Calculated age 45

3 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

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Banaz1
    1911 (AH 1329)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1911 (AH 1329)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İcazetname [1]

Schooling Yusuf Âgah Efendi Sıbyan Mektebi; Takvacılar Camii Medresesi; Hacı Hafız Ahmed Hulusi Efendi ders halkası [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)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Kütahya, Meydan Mahallesi [source]
Birth province
Hüdavendigâr [source]
Birth year
1867/68 (AH 1284) [source]
Father’s occupation
Müderris [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2052.151/9/2 [1]İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2046.150/21/1 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]İcazetname [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education detail
İbtidai tahsil tamamlandı; ulûm-ı tabiiye ve âliye tahsili [source]
Education
Yusuf Âgah Efendi Sıbyan Mektebi; Takvacılar Camii Medresesi; Hacı Hafız Ahmed Hulusi Efendi ders halkası [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Kütahya [source]
First-salary field
500 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Meşihat arşivi belgelerine göre Hüdavendigâr Vilâyeti Kütahya sancağı uleması (1850-1923)

    RUMEYSA ŞENSOY · 2019 · Pages 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70

    İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2052.151/9/2; İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivi, Sicill-i Ahval Dosyaları, nr. 2046.150/21/1

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 1 dated years

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