Correspondence Office

Archives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire

Held by Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

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Reference	TR-BOA/HR-MKT
Title	Correspondence Office
Dates	1843-11-30-1861-05-01
Dates Start	1843-11-30
Dates End	1861-05-01
Level of description	Series
Extend and medium	Global extent: 38062 files, 103 selected and described items

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Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire (HN)

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Description

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.

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Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/correspondence-office-2

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Fonds - 1 : Archives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire

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Reference	TR-BOA/HR
Title	Archives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire
Covering dates	1831-01-01-1929-12-31
Dates Start	1831-01-01
Dates End	1929-12-31
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	Global extent: 506055 files; 937 selected and described items

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Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire (HN)

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Description	To be completed.
Accruals	The fonds is closed.

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Conditions governing access

Subject to the authorization of Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

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Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	Catalogue prepared during 2014-2018
Archivist's notes	Detailed inventory of 937 items from the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire (1842-1927), held by the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (Istanbul), made by Yasemin Avci, Katerina Stathi, [others], 2014-2018.
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/archives-from-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-ottoman-empire?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Archives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire