Charting the Ottoman Empire (COE) is a digital humanities project that explores the economic, political, and financial networks of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. By digitizing and analyzing fiscal archives, COE sheds new light on the political economy of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa under Ottoman rule.

Housed at Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and developed in collaboration with Bahçeşehir University’s Center for Ottoman Studies (BAU-OTAM), COE brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, economists, political scientists, digital humanists, archivists, and data scientists from institutions in the US, Turkey, Italy, the UK, and Greece. The project uses advanced digital tools to analyze untapped fiscal records, offering a fresh perspective on wealth, debt, and state power in the Ottoman world.

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