Skip to content
Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Hacı Abdullah Rıfat Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Sivas · Dated entries 1869 to 1893 (AH 1286 to 1310)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d,nr.00100,s.193

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 6 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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Geyve Ortaköy

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.

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

  1. 1

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Geyve Ortaköy

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Geyve Ortaköy

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Rüsumat idaresi kitabeti ve sandık emini (İstifa)

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 11 recorded years

    Bolu

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Rüsumat müdüriyeti baş kâtibi

      650 kuruş

    2. Rüsumat müdüriyeti baş kâtibi (İstifa)

      Recorded service ending

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Göynük / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Göynük

      Memur (ücretli)

    2. Place not recorded

      Bakaya aşar tahkik memuru

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 6 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruş

    2. Vergi kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik: redif sınıfına nakil ve ihraç

  6. 6

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Mudurnu

    1. Sandık emini

      360 kuruş

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.

  • Birth · Sivas · Year not recorded

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. 1870 to 1880 (AH 1287 to 1297)
  2. Geyve Ortaköy1
    1869/70 (AH 1286)
  3. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  4. 1892/93 (AH 1310)

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. Bolu650
  2. Geyve Ortaköy35

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. 1870 to 1880 (AH 1287 to 1297)
  2. 1881 to 1887 (AH 1299 to 1304)
  3. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  5. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  6. 1869/70 (AH 1286)

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; medrese [source]

Qualification Arapça sarf ve nahiv [1]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 147, 148

    242 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00100,s.193

Read the original source accounts · 25 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 · 21 dated years

How to read the records

Subjects