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Hacı Ali Sami Bey

Born 1843/44 (AH 1259) · Bursa · Dated entries 1863 to 1894 (AH 1280 to 1311)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 55/162; 321

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 7 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.

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

Stage 1 of 7 · Bursa

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.

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

  1. 1

    1843/44 (AH 1259)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Hüdâvendigâr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. tahrîrat kalemine mülâzemet

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Hüdâvendigâr

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. kalem-i mezbur mukayyid refakati

      135 kuruşCalculated age 23

  4. 4

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Hüdâvendigâr / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr; Location not recorded

    1. Hüdâvendigâr

      kalem-i mezbur mukayyid refakati

      135 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. Place not recorded

      kalem-i mezbur mukayyid refakati

      125 kuruşCalculated age 24

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Place not recorded / Hüdâvengidâr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Hüdâvengidâr

    1. Place not recorded

      kalem-i mezbur mukayyid refakati

      125 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Place not recorded

      evrak kalemi mukayyid muavinliği

      416 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 25 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. evrak kalemi mukayyid muavinliği

      416 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. evrak müdiriyeti muavinliği

      650 kuruşCalculated age 50

    All 39 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. evrak müdiriyeti

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 52

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. Hüdâvendigâr3
    1863 to 1867 (AH 1280 to 1283)
  2. Hüdâvengidâr1
    1867/68 (AH 1284)

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. Hüdâvendigâr135
  2. Hüdâvengidâr250

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. 1869 to 1892 (AH 1286 to 1309)
  2. 1865 to 1868 (AH 1282 to 1284)
  3. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  4. 1867 to 1869 (AH 1284 to 1285)
  5. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  6. 1877/78 (AH 1294)

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 Mahalli mekteb-i ibtidâîyesi; mekteb-i rüşdiyesi; Cami-i kebir [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 119,120

    55/162; 321

Read the original source accounts · 48 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 · 30 dated years

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