Catalog

In the catalogue, the database is made up of three principal series:

1. The Archives: The archives of the Ottoman Bank

2. Documentation: A collection of documents including maps, plans, photographs, commercial directories, covering the period concerned, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish republic, acquired from various sources and digitally recorded.

3. The London Archives: Digital copies of the archives of the Ottoman Bank kept in the Guildhall Library, London.

After a choice between the three principal series, the required data can be detailed up to the fifth level. The levels differ according to the principal series. To the last level, clicking the mention "next", a certain number of files/documents can be displayed in alphabetical or chronological order.

On the table of the document, the following informations are available:

-Code: The code according to file system
-Sub Code: Sub code of the file/document
-File Title: The title of the file/document
-Start date/End date: The date of the first and last document

Clicking on the mention "Search by title", it is sufficient to write one of the key-words used in the required file in order to make a research from the title of the file.

Since the most part of the registers are in French, the French transcription is used in the classification. In order to conserve the coherence between the files, names and first names of persons and companies are registered in conformity with the original transcription. Consequently it is necessary to consider the French transcription when Turkish, Greek and Armenian names are searched even through the files related to the republican period (this rule is broken in some registers).