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Fikri Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Malatya · Dated entries 1878 to 1900 (AH 1295 to 1317)

Languages Turkish

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.

1MalatyaHavranErzincan
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Malatya

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.

  1. 1

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Telgraf Muhabere Memuru stajyeri

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 5 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf Muhabere Memuru stajyeri

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf Muhabere Memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 20

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Havran / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Havran

      Telgraf Muhabere Memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 27

    2. Malatya

      Telgraf ve Posta Muhabere Memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 27

  5. 5

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 9 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Muhabere Memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve Posta Muhabere Memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Malatya / Erzincan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Malatya

      Telgraf ve Posta Muhabere Memuru

      400 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erzincan

      Muhabere Memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

2 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

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. Malatya11
    1889 to 1900 (AH 1307 to 1317)
  2. 1878 to 1883 (AH 1295 to 1300)
  3. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  4. 1889/90 (AH 1307)

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. Malatya380 to 400

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. 1889 to 1900 (AH 1307 to 1317)
  2. 1878 to 1883 (AH 1295 to 1300)
  3. 1882 to 1890 (AH 1300 to 1307)
  4. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)

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; özel hocalar [source]

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 Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 198, 199, 200

Read the original source accounts · 24 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 · 17 dated years

How to read the records

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