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Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate

  • TR-BOA/Y
  • Fonds
  • 1830-01-01-1922-12-31

This fonds constitutes a very rich collection of documents resulting from the assortment of documents belonging to the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). It includes 1618 files, 626000 documents and 15679 notebooks. It appears that it includes important documents for this period, which is a fresh field for the research in the history of management. Yıldız catalogues (series) are collected in five main groups; the Main Documents of Yıldız Palace (Yıldız Esas Evrakı), the Official Documents of Grand Vizierate (Sadâret Resmî Maruzât Evrakı), the Officially Presented Documents of Grand Vizierate (Sadâret Husûsî Maruzât Evrakı) and the Daily Documents of Yıldız Palace (Yıldız Perakende Evrakı).

Yildiz Palace (Y)

Registers of Inspector of Rumelia of the Ottoman Empire

  • TR-BOA/TFR-I
  • Fonds
  • 1900-01-01-1909-12-31

This fonds includes documents like petitions or letters written to the Inspectorship between 1900-1909 (Hijri dates: 1318-1327). These petitions usually dealt with requests for promotion and appointment, salary, gang and bandit activities, demands for tax, complaints about administrative corruption, etc.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1318-1329.

Inspector of Rumelia (RM)

Private collection of Ali Fuat Türkgeldi

  • TR-BOA/HSD-AFT
  • Fonds
  • 1670-01-01-1961-12-31

This catalogue consists in the private collection of Ali Fuat Türkgeldi, who worked at different state offices such as Interior Chief Secretary of Ministry of Interior the Councillor of Ministry of Interior and the Imperial Council Directory Office of Finance and Public Works (Şura-yı Devlet Maliye ve Nafia Dairesi Başkanlığı) since 1907.
The fonds includes 3.167 documents, 19 notebooks, 60 paintings and an album.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this collection are: 1080-1380.

Ali Fuat Türkgeldi (AFT)

Ottoman Ministry of Police’s records

  • TR-BOA/ZB
  • Fonds
  • 1846-01-01-1923-12-31

This catalogue includes the majority of the archive materials of the Ministry of Police; correspondence from other ministries, state offices and provinces; the Correspondence Office, which includes the replies to these writings and letters, and the drafts from the Accounting Office; receipts for the transactions of the Office of Public Accounting and the bills returned.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1262-1341.

Ministry of Police of the Ottoman Empire (ZB)

Ottoman Empire State Council's Archives

  • TR-BOA/ŞD
  • Fonds
  • 1868-01-01-1922-12-31

This fonds includes documents divided according to their subjects. The divisions in the catalogue concern the navy, the interior, defter-i hakani, education, treasury, telegraph, commerce and various Ottoman provinces and so on.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1285-1341.

State Council of Ottoman Empire (ŞD)

Imperial Rescripts' Archives of the Ottoman Empire

  • TR-BOA/İ
  • Fonds
  • 1802-01-01-1922-12-31

The Imperial Rescript means the order of the sultan. Formerly, the term “the Firmans” was used for the orders of the sultan. From 1832 on, the writing that was offered in response to the “letters” presented to the clerk of the sultan and that meant the approval of the sultan was called ‘irade’. The Imperial Rescripts in file procedure were grouped according to the issues and subjects in them, not according to the ministries and offices to which they belonged.

Imperial Rescript of the Ottoman Empire (Î)

Grand Vizirate’s archives

  • TR-BOA/A
  • Fonds
  • 1840-01-01-1922-12-31

To be completed.

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (VA)

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