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Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate Subseries
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Public works

This subseries largely includes the opinions of the Railway Board, The Directory of Roads and Bridges (Turuk ve Meabir İdaresi), the Agricultural Bank (Ziraat Bankası), the Imperial Press and the Ministry of Commerce and Public Works engineers; the contracts with Hamidiye-Hedjaz Railway Commission, Construction Directorate and foreign companies; the official price lists promulgated by Istanbul Broker Exchange; and the correspondences with Hedjaz Railway Commission, Anatolian Ottoman Railway Company, the Translation Office Clerkship of Ministry of Trade and Public Works (Ticaret ve Nafia Nezareti Tercüme Odası Katibliği), the Public Works Commission of Ankara Province (Ankara Vilayeti Nafia Komisyonu) and trade courts.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1284-1327.

Correspondence with officials

This subseries includes the correspondences with the official persons sent by the court, governorships, lieutenant offices and state for inspection.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1251-1326.

Special Petitions

The subseries called the Officially Presented Documents of Yıldız Grand Vizierate (Yıldız Sadâret Husûsî Maruzât Evrakı) includes the private requests presented to the court by the Grand Vizierate office so as to inform the sultan about the domestic or foreign problems and events. The documents deal with Şarki Rumelia and Armenia questions, Crete question, Egypt question, Italia’s intervention in Africa and so on. It also includes writings about international affairs and Ottoman State’s policy, foreign press’ articles about the Ottoman State, and correspondence regarding these writings.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1294-1326.

Official Petitions

“The Regulation of Council of Minister” (Meclis-i Vükela Dahili Nizamnamesi), dated 1 March 1879, subordinated the whole performance and all the actions of the government to the permission of the sultan, so it was necessary for the Grand Vizierate office to give the sultan information about anything that the government would do and to take permission from him. This series includes official letters written to the court by the Grand Vizierate but did not have an imperial rescript. Grand Vizierate Official Requests with an imperial rescript are in the section of “Assortment of Imperial Rescripts”.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1327.

Private Secretariat of the Sultan

This series includes documents written by the Private Secretariat of the Sultan head clerk to the provincial governorships, sub-provincial governorships, commanderships, embassies and inspectorships and to the ministries in the capital city; it also includes the official letters and their summaries written by the Private Secretariat of the Sultan head clerk to the sultan about various issues.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1272-1330.

Missing English title

This subseries includes correspondence between the court and the Ministry of Imperial Treasury. Also, letters signed by the Minister of Imperial Treasury, the writings coming from the Emlak-i Hümayun İdaresi, petition of the imperial chamberlains’ requests as well as the writings about Imperial Treasury.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1264-1328.

Foreign Affairs

Referring to the years 1293-1327/1876-1909 of the daily documents, this catalogue consists of 6577 documents. It also includes writings signed by the ministry of Foreign Affairs with the letterhead of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; official letters written by the embassies, foreign state presidents and upper-rank authorities, and the translations of the letters and other documents like newspaper and journal articles; petitions of The Counsellor of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chief Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and translations of the newspaper made by the the Foreign Press Directory Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hariciye Nezareti Matbuat-ı Ecnebiye Müdüriyeti).
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1327.

General correspondence between the office of zaptieh and Yıldız Palace

This subseries includes the correspondences between the office of zaptieh and Yıldız Palace on the whole. It also includes documents resulting from the correspondences with such offices as Beyoğlu Sub-provincial Governorship (Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı), Üsküdar Sub-provincial Governorship (Üsküdar Mutasarrıflığı), Beşiktaş Police Centre, İstanbul Police Centre, The General Directory of Prisons (Hapishane-i Umumiye Müdüriyeti), Police Inspectors’ Petitions, Theatres’ Inspectorship and Patrols’ Inspectorship.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1282-1327.

Missing English title

This catalogue is in the Yıldız Perakende document, containing the documents between 1845-1909. It includes documents regarding the petitions, journals, letters, praises, unsigned reports (layiha) and remarks (mütalaalar) and persons’ letters of congratulation and thanks.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1262-1327.

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