Gabriel Aubaret archive of Ottoman economic and transportation history, 1879-1892

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Summary

Title:
Gabriel Aubaret archive of Ottoman economic and transportation history
Dates:
1879-1892
Creators:
Aubaret, Gabriel, 1825-1894 and Daša Pahor Antiquariat
Extent:
3.06 Linear Feet (6 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box)
Language:
Multiple languages .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Gabriel Aubaret archive of Ottoman economic and transportation history (M2986). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of reports, correspondence and maps dealing with the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, the Anatolian Railway, the Rumelian Railway, and the Régie Company in the Ottoman Empire in the 1880s.

The collection is divided into three parts: Series 1: Ottoman Public Debt Administration; Series 2: Ottoman railways; and Series 3: Régie Company.

Series 1 documents the Ottoman Public Debt Administration and is the largest series in the collection. The materials contain the complete record of Procès-verbaux, the official secret meeting minutes of the executive committtee of the OPDA from June 28, 1883 and October 29, 1888. This series contains some of the foundational documents of the OPDA including imperial decrees, account papers, bond conversion plans, and other documents. The series also contains correspondence, telegrams, and draft responses.

Series 2 deals with the Ottoman railway companies: the Rumelian Railway and the Anatolian Railway. These materials include Procès-verbaux, correspondence, feasability studies, maps, and other documents.

Series 3 deals with the Régie Company [Ottoman Tobacco Company] which was the tobacco monopoly. These materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and other materials.

The collection is primarily in French, but there is also a small amount of materials in Ottoman Turkish.

Biographical / historical:

Gabriel Aubaret (Louis-Gabriel-Galdéric Aubaret) (1825-1894) was a French naval officer, linguist, diplomat, administrator and business leader. He served as the president of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration as well as president of the syndicate that completed the railway connecting Istanbul to the rest of Europe and worked with the Régie Company, which was the tobacco monopoly in the Ottoman Emnpire.

The Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA), was created by Sultan Abdul Hamid II's Decree of Muharrem (1881), in the wake of the empire's partial default on its foreign debt. The OPDA was an autonomous entity of the Ottoman Treasury yet run for and on behalf of foreign bondholders with a mandate to sequester several of the Sublime Porte's major revenue streams towards servicing and retiring the imperial debt. Aubaret was the founding president of the OPDA and served several terms from 1881-1892.

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About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-08-01 13:09:39 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Gabriel Aubaret archive of Ottoman economic and transportation history (M2986). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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