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Turkish Dates
I've found an inedible Turkish date - perhaps someone can explain where I'm
going wrong ! The June 1911 issue of Turkey consists of a number of earlier stamps overprinted to commemorate the Sultan's visit to Macedonia. The overprint looks like this - http://cjoint.com/data/dnsOPmrRrb.htm All the (few) examples I've got look like this (with the minor difference of the placename at the bottom). In the middle are four characters that are a date, which I translate to 1329 in the Rumi calendar. To convert to Gregorian dates one adds 584 years which comes out to 1913 not 1911 ! To get the correct Gregorian date, the Rumi date should be 1327, which would require the last character to look like a "V" not a "9". Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong - or alternatively why a Turkish issue of 1911 is dated for 1913 ?? Regards, Nick |
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Turkish Dates
On Mar 13, 12:47*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote:
I've found an inedible Turkish date - perhaps someone can explain where I'm going wrong ! The June 1911 issue of Turkey consists of a number of earlier stamps overprinted to commemorate the Sultan's visit to Macedonia. The overprint looks like this -http://cjoint.com/data/dnsOPmrRrb.htm All the (few) examples I've got look like this (with the minor difference of the placename at the bottom). In the middle are four characters that are a date, which I translate to 1329 in the Rumi calendar. To convert to Gregorian dates one adds 584 years which comes out to 1913 not 1911 ! To get the correct Gregorian date, the Rumi date should be 1327, which would require the last character to look like a "V" not a "9". Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong - or alternatively why a Turkish issue of 1911 is dated for 1913 ?? Regards, Nick Hey Nick: I make the Islamic / Gregorian dates as follows: 01 Safar 1326 = 05 Mar 1908 01 Safar 1327 = 22 Feb 1909 01 Safar 1328 = 12 Feb 1910 01 Safar 1329 = 01 Feb 1911 28 Jumada al-Ahira 1329 = 26 June 1911 === Stamps issued 01 Safar 1330 = 21 Jan 1912 01 Safar 1331 = 10 Jan 1913 01 Safar 1332 = 30 Dec 1913 01 Safar 1333 = 19 Dec 1914 01 Safar 1334 = 09 Dec 1915 01 Safar 1335 = 27 Nov 1916 01 Safar 1336 = 16 Nov 1917 01 Safar 1337 = 06 Nov 1918 01 Safar 1338 = 26 Oct 1919 01 Safar 1339 = 15 Oct 1920 Please note the two year changes in 1913. Best Regards Blair |
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Turkish Dates
"Blair (TC)" wrote in
: On Mar 13, 12:47*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote: I've found an inedible Turkish date - perhaps someone can explain where I 'm going wrong ! The June 1911 issue of Turkey consists of a number of earlier stamps overprinted to commemorate the Sultan's visit to Macedonia. The overprint looks like this -http://cjoint.com/data/dnsOPmrRrb.htm All the (few) examples I've got look like this (with the minor difference of the placename at the bottom). In the middle are four characters that are a date, which I translate to 1329 in the Rumi calendar. To convert to Gregorian dates one adds 584 years which comes out to 1913 not 1911 ! To get the correct Gregorian date, the Rumi date should be 1327, which would require the last character to look like a "V" not a "9". Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong - or alternatively why a Turkish issue of 1911 is dated for 1913 ?? Regards, Nick Hey Nick: I make the Islamic / Gregorian dates as follows: 01 Safar 1326 = 05 Mar 1908 01 Safar 1327 = 22 Feb 1909 01 Safar 1328 = 12 Feb 1910 01 Safar 1329 = 01 Feb 1911 28 Jumada al-Ahira 1329 = 26 June 1911 === Stamps issued 01 Safar 1330 = 21 Jan 1912 01 Safar 1331 = 10 Jan 1913 01 Safar 1332 = 30 Dec 1913 01 Safar 1333 = 19 Dec 1914 01 Safar 1334 = 09 Dec 1915 01 Safar 1335 = 27 Nov 1916 01 Safar 1336 = 16 Nov 1917 01 Safar 1337 = 06 Nov 1918 01 Safar 1338 = 26 Oct 1919 01 Safar 1339 = 15 Oct 1920 Please note the two year changes in 1913. Best Regards Blair Blair, Thanks for your input but ... there are more overprints with dates a little later - Ones with "1331" in a crescent issued in 1915, and later "1332" in 1916. If I get a match of 1329 to 1911, then 1331 & 1332 don't fit 1915 & 1916. Thoughts ? Regards, Nick |
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Turkish Dates
On Mar 13, 4:00*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote:
"Blair (TC)" wrote : On Mar 13, 12:47*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote: I've found an inedible Turkish date - perhaps someone can explain where I 'm going wrong ! The June 1911 issue of Turkey consists of a number of earlier stamps overprinted to commemorate the Sultan's visit to Macedonia. The overprint looks like this -http://cjoint.com/data/dnsOPmrRrb.htm All the (few) examples I've got look like this (with the minor difference of the placename at the bottom). In the middle are four characters that are a date, which I translate to 1329 in the Rumi calendar. To convert to Gregorian dates one adds 584 years which comes out to 1913 not 1911 ! To get the correct Gregorian date, the Rumi date should be 1327, which would require the last character to look like a "V" not a "9". Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong - or alternatively why a Turkish issue of 1911 is dated for 1913 ?? Regards, Nick Hey Nick: I make the Islamic / Gregorian *dates as follows: 01 Safar 1326 = 05 Mar 1908 01 Safar 1327 = 22 Feb 1909 01 Safar 1328 = 12 Feb 1910 01 Safar 1329 = 01 Feb 1911 28 Jumada al-Ahira 1329 = 26 June 1911 *=== Stamps issued 01 Safar 1330 = 21 Jan 1912 01 Safar 1331 = 10 Jan 1913 01 Safar 1332 = 30 Dec 1913 01 Safar 1333 = 19 Dec 1914 01 Safar 1334 = 09 Dec 1915 01 Safar 1335 = 27 Nov 1916 01 Safar 1336 = 16 Nov 1917 01 Safar 1337 = 06 Nov 1918 01 Safar 1338 = 26 Oct 1919 01 Safar 1339 = 15 Oct 1920 Please note the two year changes in 1913. Best Regards Blair Blair, Thanks for your input but ... there are more overprints with dates a little later - Ones with "1331" in a crescent issued in 1915, and later "1332" in 1916. If I get a match of 1329 to 1911, then 1331 & 1332 don't fit 1915 & 1916. Thoughts ? Regards, Nick well it's possible the stamp catalogue dates are wrong in some cases.. also a 1331 (or similar) opt could have been applied any time after 1912-13. Blair |
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Turkish Dates
On Mar 13, 9:00*pm, "Blair (TC)" wrote:
On Mar 13, 4:00*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote: "Blair (TC)" wrote : On Mar 13, 12:47*pm, Nick Bridgwater No@Spam wrote: I've found an inedible Turkish date - perhaps someone can explain where I 'm going wrong ! The June 1911 issue of Turkey consists of a number of earlier stamps overprinted to commemorate the Sultan's visit to Macedonia. The overprint looks like this -http://cjoint.com/data/dnsOPmrRrb.htm All the (few) examples I've got look like this (with the minor difference of the placename at the bottom). In the middle are four characters that are a date, which I translate to 1329 in the Rumi calendar. To convert to Gregorian dates one adds 584 years which comes out to 1913 not 1911 ! To get the correct Gregorian date, the Rumi date should be 1327, which would require the last character to look like a "V" not a "9". Can anyone please explain what I'm doing wrong - or alternatively why a Turkish issue of 1911 is dated for 1913 ?? Regards, Nick Hey Nick: I make the Islamic / Gregorian *dates as follows: 01 Safar 1326 = 05 Mar 1908 01 Safar 1327 = 22 Feb 1909 01 Safar 1328 = 12 Feb 1910 01 Safar 1329 = 01 Feb 1911 28 Jumada al-Ahira 1329 = 26 June 1911 *=== Stamps issued 01 Safar 1330 = 21 Jan 1912 01 Safar 1331 = 10 Jan 1913 01 Safar 1332 = 30 Dec 1913 01 Safar 1333 = 19 Dec 1914 01 Safar 1334 = 09 Dec 1915 01 Safar 1335 = 27 Nov 1916 01 Safar 1336 = 16 Nov 1917 01 Safar 1337 = 06 Nov 1918 01 Safar 1338 = 26 Oct 1919 01 Safar 1339 = 15 Oct 1920 Please note the two year changes in 1913. Best Regards Blair Blair, Thanks for your input but ... there are more overprints with dates a little later - Ones with "1331" in a crescent issued in 1915, and later "1332" in 1916.. If I get a match of 1329 to 1911, then 1331 & 1332 don't fit 1915 & 1916. Thoughts ? Regards, Nick well it's possible the stamp catalogue dates are wrong in some cases.. also a 1331 (or similar) opt could have been applied any time after 1912-13. Blair addendum. could the stamps be optd then stored until needed? |
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Turkish Dates
My dates were AH (Hejira) dates by the way.
The Turkish financial calendar (also known as the Mali- or Rumi-calendar) was in use in the Ottoman empire during its later period, mostly along with the lunar Hijra- calendar. It has rather peculiar rules for aligning the numbering of (longer) solar with (shorter) lunar years by regularly dropping entire years (Sivish-years) apart from other peculiarities and errors were therefore inevitable. Dual date In the Ottoman Empire, the lunar-based Hijri calendar remained in use for religious matters alongside the Rumi calendar. In order to prevent confusion between the dates, both calendars were used on most documents. Conversion between the Rumi and Gregorian calendars To convert dates between the two calendars, the following periods have to be taken into consideration: * Start-of-year correction Until the end of 1332 AH, Rumi dates in the last 12 or 13 days of December, January, and February belong to the following Gregorian year. Until the end of February 1917 AD, Gregorian dates in January, February, and the first 12 or 13 days of March belong to the previous Rumi year. * Before March 13, 1840 AD No conversion is possible, since Rumi calendar was not in use. * Between March 13, 1840 AD (March 1, 1256 AH) and March 13, 1900 AD (February 29, 1315 AH) Add 12 days and 584 years to find Gregorian date. 1900 was not a Gregorian leap year. The day after Feb. 28, 1900 AD (Feb. 16, 1315 AH) was Mar. 1, 1900 AD (Feb. 17, 1315 AH.) * Between March 14, 1900 AD (March 1, 1316 AH) and February 28, 1917 AD (February 15, 1332 AH) Add 13 days and 584 years to find Gregorian date. * Starting on March 1, 1917 AD (March 1, 1333 AH) Add 584 years only. From Rumi calendar into Gregorian calendar 31 March Incident occurred on March 31, 1325 AH Adding 13 days to date and 584 to year: April 13, 1909 AD From Gregorian calendar into Rumi calendar Proclamation of the republic in Turkey on October 29, 1923 AD Subtract 584 from year. Date remains same after January 1, 1918 due to use of the Gregorian calendar in the Rumi calendar: October 29, 1339 AH Here is a page where you can download a freeware (DOS) program that converts Rumi : http://web.archive.org/web/200807300.../computus.html |
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Turkish Dates
"Blair (TC)" wrote in
: My dates were AH (Hejira) dates by the way. The Turkish financial calendar (also known as the Mali- or Rumi-calendar) was in use in the Ottoman empire during its later period, mostly along with the lunar Hijra- calendar. It has rather peculiar rules for aligning the numbering of (longer) solar with (shorter) lunar years by regularly dropping entire years (Sivish-years) apart from other peculiarities and errors were therefore inevitable. Dual date In the Ottoman Empire, the lunar-based Hijri calendar remained in use for religious matters alongside the Rumi calendar. In order to prevent confusion between the dates, both calendars were used on most documents. Conversion between the Rumi and Gregorian calendars To convert dates between the two calendars, the following periods have to be taken into consideration: * Start-of-year correction Until the end of 1332 AH, Rumi dates in the last 12 or 13 days of December, January, and February belong to the following Gregorian year. Until the end of February 1917 AD, Gregorian dates in January, February, and the first 12 or 13 days of March belong to the previous Rumi year. * Before March 13, 1840 AD No conversion is possible, since Rumi calendar was not in use. * Between March 13, 1840 AD (March 1, 1256 AH) and March 13, 1900 AD (February 29, 1315 AH) Add 12 days and 584 years to find Gregorian date. 1900 was not a Gregorian leap year. The day after Feb. 28, 1900 AD (Feb. 16, 1315 AH) was Mar. 1, 1900 AD (Feb. 17, 1315 AH.) * Between March 14, 1900 AD (March 1, 1316 AH) and February 28, 1917 AD (February 15, 1332 AH) Add 13 days and 584 years to find Gregorian date. * Starting on March 1, 1917 AD (March 1, 1333 AH) Add 584 years only. From Rumi calendar into Gregorian calendar 31 March Incident occurred on March 31, 1325 AH Adding 13 days to date and 584 to year: April 13, 1909 AD From Gregorian calendar into Rumi calendar Proclamation of the republic in Turkey on October 29, 1923 AD Subtract 584 from year. Date remains same after January 1, 1918 due to use of the Gregorian calendar in the Rumi calendar: October 29, 1339 AH Here is a page where you can download a freeware (DOS) program that converts Rumi : http://web.archive.org/web/200807300...w.lib.umich.ed u/area/Near.East/computus.html So if the date on the first overprint was a Hejira date (1329 - 1911) and the dates on the slightly later overprints were Rumi (1331 - 1915, 1332 - 1916) all is OK ? This would be likely as the first Hejira (or Hijri ?) date was the date that the Ottoman Sultan visited Macedonia so was "for official dating of public events", whereas the other two dates were much more for administrative purposes (the Ottoman Empire could not get more stamps from Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. because it was on the opposite side in WWI) so had to overprint lots of earlier stamps. Looks like another useful snippet to throw in if/when I get round to displaying these at my local stamp club ! Regards, Nick |
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