Ottoman Imperial Archives

The project's second database is extracted from Ottoman-Turkish sources, housed in Ottoman Imperial Archives in Istanbul. This second set contains around 5,000 documents, including letters between Ali Pasha and members of the central administration, a number of fiscal documents concerning the financial and administrative deals between Ali Pasha and the Ottoman bureaucracy; various memoranda; complaints about or declarations of support for Ali Pasha by the local communities.

The largest portion of this data set includes hundreds of documents prepared to seize, confiscate, and auction off the assets that Ali Pasha owned or controlled after his death. Among them, one inventory prepared the basis of one of our projects entitled "The Order of Liabilities."