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Cemal Abdullah Efendi

Birthplace: dersaadet Observed AH 1326

159-219-433Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Cemal Abdullah Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1304. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at rusdiye mektebi. First work is recorded in Uskudar in AH 1325 (21 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1326 with muhabere memuru in Dersaadet (100 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 159-219-433

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 1326
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 66329

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1326
    Source lines 39743

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1326
    Source lines 39743

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1326
    Source lines 66329

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1326
    Source lines 38469

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1326
    Source lines 38469

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 1304
  2. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 21 AH years
  3. AH 1326Birth-year difference: 22 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 1326

muhabere memuru · dersaadet · 100 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1325 in uskudar. The first-salary field is 100 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1325Recorded first-work anchoruskudar
100 kuruş / month

AH 1326

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

Places in this record

AH 1325Recorded first-work anchoruskudar
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1326 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadetuskudar: Locality linkage; agreeduskudar

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • 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
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
tablekar
Recorded birth year
AH 1304
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 1325
Place
uskudar
First-salary field
100 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: 1326
Source lines 38469
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 39743
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 39743
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1326
Source lines 66329
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1326
Source lines 39743
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1326
Source lines 39743
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1326
Source lines 39743
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1326
Source lines 39743
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1326
Source lines 39743
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1326
Source lines 39743
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1326
Source lines 39743
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1326
Source lines 39743
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1326
Source lines 39743
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1326
Source lines 66329
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1326
Source lines 38469
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1326
Source lines 38469
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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 memurudersaadet100recovered
line 36308
  1. AH 1326

    muhabere memuru

    dersaadet

    100 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 36308

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
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

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 36308
1
september · mulazemet · source lines 38469
1
september · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 38469
1
older · MülazemetSüresi · source lines 14645
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
birthH1304recovered · dobirth
source lines 36308
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 36308
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 36308
schoolrusdiye mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 36308
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 36308
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 36308
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 36308
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 36308
religionmuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 36308
nationalityturkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 36308
fatherJobtablekarrecovered · father_job
source lines 36308
firstWorkH1325recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 36308
firstWorkPlaceuskudarrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 36308
firstWorkSalary100recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 36308
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 36308
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 36308
nameCemal Abdullah Efendi september · İsim
source lines 38469
birthH1304september · dobirth
source lines 38469
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 38469
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 38469
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 38469
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 38469
apprenticeshipYears1september · mulazemet
source lines 38469
apprenticeshipYears1september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 38469
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 38469
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 38469
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 38469
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 38469
fatherJobtablekarseptember · fatherjob
source lines 38469
firstWorkH1325september · firstjob_year
source lines 38469
firstWorkPlaceuskudarseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 38469
firstWorkSalary100september · firstjob_wage
source lines 38469
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 38469
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 38469
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 38469
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 38469
nameCemal Abdullah Efendi older · İsim
source lines 14645
birthH1304older · dobirth
source lines 14645
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 14645
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 14645
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 14645
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 14645
apprenticeshipYears1older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 14645
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 14645
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 14645
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 14645
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 14645
fatherJobtablekarolder · fatherjob
source lines 14645
firstWorkH1325older · firstjob_year
source lines 14645
firstWorkPlaceuskudarolder · firstjob_place
source lines 14645
firstWorkSalary100older · firstjob_wage
source lines 14645
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 14645
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 14645
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 14645
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 14645

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, “Cemal Abdullah Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 159-219-433. 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-f958e642b6388c64/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 159-219-433
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-f958e642b6388c64/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.