The Anatolia: 19th Century Project Web Portal
Welcome to the 19th Century Anatolia Project’s website. An undergraduate digital humanities project aiming to compile as well as digitize intricate data on the region in this century. Anatolia 19, here, presents its latest work.
Project References
Supporters of our project in many ways including but not limited to transporation, accomodation and access to the their archieves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are a few of the questions we get the most. If you don't see what is on your mind, reach out to us anytime via email.
Anatolia: 19th Century project invites its researchers for their contributions on various subjects and is open to academic/non-academic contributions. For more detailed information, see the Submit Data section.
The 19th century is an era of transformation all over the world, the ground upon which the world we now live in was constructed. In the particular case of the Ottoman Empire, the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz and Abdulhamid II signified the start of the prosperity of Anatolia following their deeds and reforms in terms of Anatolian infrastructure. The era following the first railway concession in 1856 is significant to understand the Ottoman Empire realizing itself in complex relations with the West, its integration into the global system, and to analyze the origins of contemporary Turkey.
We use various subsidiary sources and documents at the Presidency Ottoman Archive in Istanbul, Annuaire Commercial Oriental, David Rumsey Map Collection, Istanbul Municipality Ataturk Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France. For detailed information, see the sources page.