Showing 78 results

This series includes the formal letters sent to the court from Grand Vizierate (Grand Vizierate) and the formal letters sent to Grand Vizierate from the court, the letters written by the foreign presidents, the sultan’s ordinances and the summaries of the writings about the people’s complaints.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 952-1255.

To be completed.

This series includes documents about the application of Tanzimat reforms; information regarding some assemblies to be established; various legal regulations; information regarding the determination of the deficiencies of military regiments; reports; informing reports, etc.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1310-1334.

The Correspondence Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hariciye Mektubi Kalemi) is the unit that conducts the correspondences of the ministry with the other ministries and offices in İstanbul and the institutions and organizations in the country. To this end, the documents in this catalogue are related to the ban on the jerque and evolvement of the obscene publications; ban on the selling of black captives; announcement of the hatt-ı hümayuns, published on the occasion of the sultans’ enthronement, to the public; and thanks for the congratulations on the bairams and Christmas. Also, they are about the other states’ attitudes and policies to the Ottoman State, elimination of the disagreements over the frontier; reports of enquiry and inspection in different parts of the state; appointment of the ambassador, şehbender and consul and the supply of their personal rights, and so on.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1254-1271.

This series includes documents concerning the determination of bread prices; giving licences for some plants to grow up; preparing rough drafts to prepare calendars; assignments of employees; taxes from the accidents; repairs of bridges and piers.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1256-1284.

The Imperial Council of Legal Affairs (Meclis-i Vala-yı Ahkam-ı Adliye ) was founded as the assembly of reforms in 1838 after the Supreme Council and the Consultation Assembly (Meclis-i Meşveret) lost their functions and charged with conducting the Tanzimat’s reforms and innovations. This series includes documents related to the correspondences of the assembly and to the decision made by the assembly. In it, there are a lot of documents regarding any sort of change in the state institutions in the Tanzimat Era and de novo organisation of the state. Moreover, the application of the reforms and the difficulties that were faced could be monitored easily from these documents.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1258-1285.

This catalogue includes information concerning the salaries paid to the troops; the persons who broke away from the prisons; turning or conferring the tımars in Rumelia, etc.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 933-1287.

This series includes documents about taxing foreign merchants; various subjects regarding the domestic trade; licences for the foundation of companies; the regulations showing the conditions for the customs duties; concessions to the tradesmen; licences for the opening of the shops; and the issues and criteria to obey in the trade with foreigners.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1063-1293.

This series includes documents regarding municipal matters such as pavement repair; issues regarding the fire brigade; assignments of mukhtars and wardens; determination of the prices of various foods and drinks and cleaning materials; licencing the shops in the provinces; research into the broken goods production; and the repairing of the waterways.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1067-1295.

This series includes documents about the banditry activities; punishment of the bandits; punishments for those who commit murders; verdicts of death penalty and galleys; some decisions of forgiveness and release, etc.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1285-1296.