Website of the Stanford and OTAM Collaborative Research Is Now Live

COE is a project that investigates the economic, political and fiscal networks of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries using digital humanities methods. By digitizing and analyzing fiscal archives, COE offers a new perspective on the political economy of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa under Ottoman rule.

Developed within the Stanford University Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and conducted in collaboration with BAU-OTAM, the project brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, economists, political scientists, digital humanities specialists, archivists and data scientists from the United States, Türkiye, Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece. Examining Ottoman fiscal records with advanced digital tools, COE offers new perspectives on wealth, debt and state power.

The project is led by Ali Yaycıoğluof Stanford University; its senior advisor is BAU-OTAM Director Fikret Yılmaz, and its senior researcher is BAU-OTAM faculty member Fatma Öncel.

For details, you can visit our website:

https://chartingtheempire.stanford.edu/