Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (IFEA)
New Resources
IFEA rare books and the map of Kadıköy
Salt Research, IFEA Archive
Salt Research, IFEA Archive
Salt, in collaboration with the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (IFEA), has made 41 rare publications and seven maps from IFEA’s collection on the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye accessible online.
This initiative is part of the Bibliothèques d’Orient [Libraries of the Middle East] project led by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), to which Salt and IFEA have contributed since 2016. The newly accessible materials were cataloged and digitized by researcher Murat Tülek and academic Jean-François Pérouse, former director of IFEA. Integrated into the IFEA Archive and various collections within Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive, these resources include reports of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (1902-1903), as well as rare city and museum guides, travelogues, selected maps, and publications in Ottoman Turkish, French, German, English, Arabic, and Turkish, printed between 1883 and 1954.
Launched in 2017 using the digital infrastructure of Gallica, BnF’s online library, the Bibliothèques d’Orient project aims to preserve and share historical and cultural documents related to the Eastern Mediterranean with a wide audience.
Through this collaboration, Salt and IFEA—an Istanbul-based research center supporting interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history, sociology, political science, and urban studies—seek to expand open access and foster new opportunities for scholarly exchange.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on art, architecture, design, city, society, and economy. The City, Society, and Economy Archive brings together documents related to education, social life, and the built environment in the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye, offering insight into the region’s multicultural fabric and its transformations from the 19th century onward. The IFEA Archive, digitized as part of the collaboration with the institution, includes photographs taken during fieldwork by IFEA researchers between 1950 and 2000, along with a collection of publications and rare guidebooks.
This initiative is part of the Bibliothèques d’Orient [Libraries of the Middle East] project led by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), to which Salt and IFEA have contributed since 2016. The newly accessible materials were cataloged and digitized by researcher Murat Tülek and academic Jean-François Pérouse, former director of IFEA. Integrated into the IFEA Archive and various collections within Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive, these resources include reports of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (1902-1903), as well as rare city and museum guides, travelogues, selected maps, and publications in Ottoman Turkish, French, German, English, Arabic, and Turkish, printed between 1883 and 1954.
Launched in 2017 using the digital infrastructure of Gallica, BnF’s online library, the Bibliothèques d’Orient project aims to preserve and share historical and cultural documents related to the Eastern Mediterranean with a wide audience.
Through this collaboration, Salt and IFEA—an Istanbul-based research center supporting interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history, sociology, political science, and urban studies—seek to expand open access and foster new opportunities for scholarly exchange.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The archive collections at Salt Research encompass over 2,000,000 unique digitized resources on art, architecture, design, city, society, and economy. The City, Society, and Economy Archive brings together documents related to education, social life, and the built environment in the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye, offering insight into the region’s multicultural fabric and its transformations from the 19th century onward. The IFEA Archive, digitized as part of the collaboration with the institution, includes photographs taken during fieldwork by IFEA researchers between 1950 and 2000, along with a collection of publications and rare guidebooks.
