Ottoman Imperial Archives is a group of history enthusiasts that have created and maintain the Ottoman Imperial Archives (www.facebook.com/ottomanpictures) Facebook page. Having a total following of over 500,000 followers, they fully understand the significance of, and legacy that the Ottoman Empire has left behind in the world. They are dedicated to the full comprehension of every aspect of the former Ottoman Empire. With this emphasis in mind, the main objective of their network is to facilitate academic and intellectual discussions, conferences, and events that reflects upon the vast legacy that the Ottoman Empire had left behind on the rest of the international mainstream. Throughout the seven hundred years that defined the Ottoman Empires dynamic and turbulent history, its territorial boundaries encompassed Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Balkan European, North African, and the Black and Caspian Sea regions. Their fundamental intent is to consolidate a non-aligned and informed ideological thesis that states the genuine Ottoman historical legacy of its civilization before the rest of the world. In this vein, it is important to remember that delving into the towering academic and pictorial history of the Ottoman Empire is not an easy task. Their aim is to tackle this responsibility through a multi-pronged approach, including focusing on the following initiatives: Sharing pictorial images from their database of 70,000+ images about the Empire’s past Sharing lost documents from various parts of the world Maintaining subscriptions to a variety of museum and governmental databases to share rich resources with the rest of humanity Producing educational videos Writing research articles Distributing real video footage from the Ottoman Empire Sharing Fermans (Imperial Edicts) of the Sultans and translating their text into English Translating defunct Ottoman Turkish documents to English and modern Turkish Making original pieces of Ottoman artwork
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