Ottoman archive documents are online
Ottoman archive documents are online
Bulgaria compiles its Ottoman archives in the electronic environment.
Bulgaria’s National Library in Sofia is working to make many Ottoman archives available online.
Nearly 12 thousand Ottoman archive documents have been restored within the scope of the Library’s document restoration project.
The Project aims at allowing more people to reach the original documents without giving any harm to them.
Among the works exhibited in the library and recently-restored is a Holy Quran dating back to the 15th century.
Stoyan Shivarov from the library’s Oriental Department said that historical documents would be preserved for future generations under this project.
Shivarov also said that 20 Ottoman documents and two books are now available in the electronic environment as a part of the first stage.
Fatih’s promise to protect Christians in Bosnia
Fatih’s promise to protect Christians in Bosnia
The following is the picture of the document from Ottoman Archives regarding the Fatih’s Promise to protect Christians in Bosnia.
The Ottoman archives are fully open
The Ottoman archives are fully open
The following is a letter from Professor Stanford J. Shaw regarding the Ottoman Archives. The letter was sent to Times Higher Education on 11th May 2001.
The Ottoman archives in Istanbul are fully open, and archives from the Republican period are available in the prime minister’s Republican archives in Ankara.
The only archives not so readily available are those of the ministry of war. Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has also announced that the archives of the presidential palace at Cankaya will also be opened for research.
I have been able to see every document I have asked for in some 40 years of doing research in these archives.
Why have we not heard more about the availability of the archives of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan and of the Armenian nationalist archives held at the Zoryan Institute in Boston? Full access to these would be welcome.
Stanford J. Shaw
Professor of modern Turkish history
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey