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For your research on the Eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, you will find on this website the following tools:
A bibliography of 19th century European travel reports, with links to digital copies on the internet
Geographical Annotations to travel reports, enabling you to trace the routes of the travellers on a modern map
A place name index, containing the place names mentioned in travel books, with direct links to the relevant digitalize sources.
A tribe index, listing, in alphabetical order, names of Kurdish, Arabic and Turkoman tribes in the region. Offers direct links to the relevant pages of primary contemporary sources.
soon online:
Personal name index (experimental): Alphabetical list of personal names found in documents from the British National archives, 1890-1900. Specially interesting for genaeological researchers.
Research tools
"Town and rock of Van", from Layard 1853