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Dursun Pol Efendi

Born 1842/43 (AH 1258) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1864 to 1906 (AH 1281 to 1323)

Languages Armenian, English, French, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD d. nr. 58/267 s. 267

Life and career

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Follow 10 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Rhodes (Rodos)Aleppo (Halep)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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

  1. 1

    1842/43 (AH 1258)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1864/65 (AH 1281)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Tahsilat-ı ecnebiye odası memuru

      480 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 7 recorded years

    İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    1. Telgrafhane memuru

      480 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Telgrafhane memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    İstanbul, Beyoğlu / İstanbul, Büyükdere

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Beyoğlu; İstanbul, Büyükdere

    1. İstanbul, Beyoğlu

      Telgrafhane memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstanbul, Büyükdere

      Telgrafhane memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 32

  5. 5

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years

    İstanbul, Büyükdere

    AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Büyükdere

    1. Telgrafhane memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane memuru

      875 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    İstanbul, Büyükdere / İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Büyükdere; İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    1. İstanbul, Büyükdere

      Telgrafhane memuru

      875 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstanbul, Beyoğlu

      Telgraf merkezi memuru

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 35

  7. 7

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 17 recorded years

    İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Beyoğlu

    1. Telgraf merkezi memuru

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf merkezi memuru

      1,080 kuruşCalculated age 52

    All 20 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    1. Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 54

    2. Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 55

      Continuing service as described

  9. 9

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Rhodes (Rodos)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Muhaberat-ı ecnebiye memuru

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 56

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rhodes (Rodos)

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 56

  10. 10

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Aleppo (Halep)

    1. Fav hattı kontrol ve istatistik memurluğu şefi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 65

4 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.

The career, year by year

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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

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● 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. İstanbul, Beyoğlu26
    1866 to 1893 (AH 1283 to 1310)
  2. 1864 to 1897 (AH 1281 to 1314)
  3. İstanbul, Büyükdere4
    1873 to 1877 (AH 1290 to 1293)
  4. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  5. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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. İstanbul, Beyoğlu480 to 1,250
  3. İstanbul, Büyükdere800 to 875

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. 1876 to 1893 (AH 1293 to 1310)
  2. 1866 to 1877 (AH 1283 to 1293)
  3. 1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
  4. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
  5. 1864/65 (AH 1281)
  6. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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 Ermeni Katolik ve Fransız mektepleri [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre İstanbul doğumlu Ermeni devlet adamları

    HARUN TUNCA · 2016 · Pages 145, 146

    DH. SAİD d. nr. 58/267 s. 267

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 33 dated years

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