Facsims. of documents in Ottoman Turkish with romanized Ottoman versions and summaries in Turkish and English.

The Ottoman Empire, as it is known, ruled over abroad geography including Central Europe, Africa and Arabia. In fact it was not that easy. The only difficult was not the geographical width. It was also a very hard task to control peoples composed of many different religion, sects, races, and cultures, living in its dominions. The ottoman emperor was capable of ruling justly this different and colourful community. Therefore, people having many different qualities, freely carried on their own religions, languages, and cultures, we may call this, in today's terms, "living together'. It means the mutual toleration ability of people in a multicultural social structure. Its one of the main problems of the world today and the Ottoman Empire had wide experience on it. This book sheds light on this experience through the documents contain in the Directorate of Ottoman Archives of the prime ministry general directors of the state Archives. -Prologue by Yusuf Sarinay.