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Halil Hilmi Efendi

Birthplace: edirne Observed AH 1327

189-110-109Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Halil Hilmi Efendi was born in Edirne in AH 1307. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at rusdiye mektebi. First work is recorded in Edirne in AH 1324 (17 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1327 with muhabere memuru in Edirne (300 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 189-110-109

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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1 field has differing source assertions. Alternatives remain visible in the evidence below; the display edition does not establish which assertion is historically correct.

Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

October annual indicator
0
Additional October code
0
Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1327
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 66762

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 40535

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 40535

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1327
    Source lines 66762

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1327
    Source lines 39229

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1327
    Source lines 39229

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

About these sources

Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1307
  2. AH 1324Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
  3. AH 1327Birth-year difference: 20 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.

2 of 3

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1327

muhabere memuru · edirne · 300 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1324 in edirne. The first-salary field is 300 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1324Recorded first-work anchoredirne
300 kuruş / month

AH 1327

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

Places in this record

AH 1324Recorded first-work anchoredirne
edirne: Source coordinate on AH 1327 annual entry; ambiguousedirne

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • 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
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
memur
Recorded birth year
AH 1307
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 1324
Place
edirne
First-salary field
300 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.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Communication and Telegraph

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Muhabere Memuru
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionCommunication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1327
Source lines 39229
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 40535
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 40535
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 66762
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40535
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40535
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40535
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 40535
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40535
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1327
Source lines 40535
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 40535
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 40535
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 40535
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1327
Source lines 66762
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1327
Source lines 39229
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1327
Source lines 39229
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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
Not recordedmuhabere memuruedirne300recovered
line 37056
  1. AH 1327

    muhabere memuru

    edirne

    300 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 37056

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.

About the edition, calendars and selection

FieldSource alternativesDisplay rule
apprenticeshipYears
0
recovered · mulazemet · source lines 37056
3
september · mulazemet · source lines 39229
3
september · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 39229
3
older · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 38624
All stored assertions retained. Names prefer September, then older; supplemental names fill only missing names. Other preferred attributes use recovered, then September, then older, with modal nonblank value and source-order tie break. This does not adjudicate historical truth or changes in coding.
All substantive source assertions (75)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1307recovered · dobirth
source lines 37056
birthPlaceedirnerecovered · birth_place
source lines 37056
birthProvinceedirnerecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 37056
schoolrusdiye mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 37056
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 37056
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 37056
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 37056
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 37056
religionmuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 37056
nationalityturkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 37056
fatherJobmemurrecovered · father_job
source lines 37056
firstWorkH1324recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 37056
firstWorkPlaceedirnerecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 37056
firstWorkSalary300recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 37056
birthLatitude41.67622444502104recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 37056
birthLongitude26.561680322613817recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 37056
nameHalil Hilmi Efendi september · İsim
source lines 39229
birthH1307september · dobirth
source lines 39229
birthPlaceedirneseptember · birthplace
source lines 39229
birthProvinceedirneseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 39229
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 39229
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 39229
apprenticeshipYears3september · mulazemet
source lines 39229
apprenticeshipYears3september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 39229
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 39229
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 39229
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 39229
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 39229
fatherJobmemurseptember · fatherjob
source lines 39229
firstWorkH1324september · firstjob_year
source lines 39229
firstWorkPlaceedirneseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 39229
firstWorkSalary300september · firstjob_wage
source lines 39229
birthLatitude41.67622444502104september · lat_birth_place
source lines 39229
birthLongitude26.561680322613817september · lon_birth_place
source lines 39229
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 39229
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 39229
nameHalil Hilmi Efendi older · İsim
source lines 38624
birthH1307older · dobirth
source lines 38624
birthPlaceedirneolder · birthplace
source lines 38624
birthProvinceedirneolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 38624
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 38624
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 38624
apprenticeshipYears3older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 38624
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 38624
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 38624
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 38624
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 38624
fatherJobmemurolder · fatherjob
source lines 38624
firstWorkH1324older · firstjob_year
source lines 38624
firstWorkPlaceedirneolder · firstjob_place
source lines 38624
firstWorkSalary300older · firstjob_wage
source lines 38624
birthLatitude41.67622444502104older · lat_birth_place
source lines 38624
birthLongitude26.561680322613817older · lon_birth_place
source lines 38624
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 38624
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 38624

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

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Halil Hilmi Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 189-110-109. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-eb8285cae0cba67b/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 189-110-109
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-eb8285cae0cba67b/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.