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Hüseyin Efendi (Ağa)

Born 1854/55 (AH 1271) · Ayntab · Dated entries 1871 to 1910 (AH 1288 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 131-21-4

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.

Aleppo (Halep)Kars
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Ayntab

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.

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

  1. 1

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Ayntab

    Not yet located on the map: Ayntab

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Aleppo (Halep) / Halep vilayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Halep vilayeti

    1. Aleppo (Halep)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Halep vilayeti

      Süvari zabtiyesi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 17

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 3 recorded years

    Halep vilayeti

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Halep vilayeti

    1. Süvari zabtiyesi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Süvari zabtiyesi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Kars

    1. Kars muharebesinde hizmet

      Calculated age 21

  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Halep vilayeti / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Halep vilayeti; Location not recorded

    1. Halep vilayeti

      Süvari zabtiyesi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 29

    2. Place not recorded

      Mustafa Paşa'nın himayesinde çalışma

      Calculated age 29

  6. 6

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 14 recorded years

    Ayntab Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Ayntab Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi

    1. Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi mübaşiri

      65 kuruşCalculated age 43

    2. Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi mübaşiri (Azil)

      Calculated age 56

    All 14 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.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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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. Ayntab Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi13
    1896 to 1909 (AH 1314 to 1326)
  2. Halep vilayeti4
    1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
  3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)

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. Ayntab Şer‘iyye Mahkemesi65
  2. Halep vilayeti120

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. 1896 to 1909 (AH 1314 to 1326)
  2. 1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
  3. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
  4. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

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 Gayriresmî mektepler [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · konuşmaya dair bilgisi var [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Meşîhat Arşivi'ne göre Osmanlı'nın son döneminde Ayntablı ilmiye sınıfı

    OĞUZ ÖLMEZ · 2021 · Pages 46

    125 BOA.MŞH.ŞSC.d.SAİD, 131-21-4.

Read the original source accounts · 22 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 · 20 dated years

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