Consultation Office of the Legal Counsellor

Archives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire

Consultation Office of the Legal Counsellor

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

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Reference	TR-BOA/HR-HMŞ-İŞO
Title	Consultation Office of the Legal Counsellor
Dates	1879-03-25-1922-11-03
Dates Start	1879-03-25
Dates End	1922-11-03
Level of description	Series
Extend and medium	Global extent: 10998 files, 122 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

Established as a unit affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1883/1301, the Advice Bureau is a counselling body that examines the legal issues concerning the foreign affairs of the Ottoman State and offers its opinion on them. While there are books, papers, journals, etc. in this catalogue, there are also documents related to Straits Question, Moorish Question, abolition of the capitulations, Lahey Conference, International Paris Medical Conference, treaties as a result of the public wars, Question of the Islands, protocol of peace and friendship with Brazil, foreign institutions in the Ottoman State and so on.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1290-1342.

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Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/consultation-office-of-the-legal-counsellor?sf_culture=en

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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