أهمية الأرشيف الدبلوماسي في كتابة تاريخ العلاقات العثمانية الفرنسية

Abstract EN

The researcher in history depends on the archival documents as the main source of writing history, according to their content and icludes information and interpretations of the facts.

The student of Ottoman history finds in front of him a huge amount of documents in the center of the turkish archives, which is the fourth center of archives in the world in terms of the amount of document, But the student of the Ottoman-French relations also has to visit the French archives, especially the diplomatic archive of the French Foreign Ministry, because it contains memoir, reports, and consular, political and economic correspondence that enable the nature of the French Ottoman relations, the role of the consuls and the policy of France in the Ottoman Empire and its various provinces.

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