Ottoman Archives

The Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister Office ( Turkish Ottoman Başbakanlık Arşivi, BOA ) is the largest public archive of Turkey. It is located in Cağaloğlu in Istanbul and is subject to the " General Directorate of State archives " of Turkey's Prime Minister Office. On a shelf length of around 100 km of the archive 100 and 150 million records or deed records poses in registers from the time of the Ottoman Empire. The archive provides information for the history of Turkey and the approximately 20 states that have emerged from the Ottoman Empire. The volume of documentary material is developed since the 1930s and is available to researchers. The origins of the archive in 1846, when the founding of the first modern archives of the Ottoman Empire under the name " Hazine -i evrak " / خزينه اوراق was decided on adoption ( irade ) of the Grand Vizier Mustafa Resid Pasha. The building was completed in 1849. Once in Turkey, the Republic was proclaimed, the Ottoman archive has been renamed several times. His current organizational integration to the General Directorate of the Prime Minister's Office received the archive in 1984.