Wikilala Digital Catalogs
You can search all Ottoman Turkish publications, works and clippings in our libraries point-by-point in our detailed catalogs. Select the relevant thematic catalog below to perform deeper searches.
Newspapers
800+ Newspapers / 320,000+ Issues
Complete archive of official, semi-official, and private Turkish newspapers published in Istanbul and the provinces from 1831 to the Alphabet Reform. Full-text search enabled from front pages to advertisements.
Magazines
1,200+ Journals / 140,000+ Issues
Collection of scientific, literary, women's, children's, military, humor, and professional journals that shaped the Ottoman intellectual world. Period debates and magazine covers.
Books
45,000+ Books / Full Text
Printed Ottoman Turkish books in history, geography, literature, medicine, law, and natural sciences. Original pages and new-script transcriptions together.
Documents
250,000+ Original Documents
Fermans, berats, commercial deeds, foreign affairs correspondence, and telegrams collected from Ottoman state administration, institutions, and family archives.
Manuscripts
15,000+ Manuscript Codices
Divans, illuminated manuscripts, scientific manuscripts, and rare copies penned in aesthetic calligraphy. High-resolution digital portal for research.
Authors
12,000+ Author Profiles
Cross-indexed catalog of the life stories and works of authors, translators, and journalists who contributed to Ottoman literature, press, and scholarly life.
Publishers
650+ Historical Printhouses & Publishers
Documentation of institutions — from Müteferrika to the republic, from state printhouses to private libraries — that undertook press and publishing activities and the publications they printed.
01 / WHAT IS A DIGITAL CATALOG?
A catalog is a data guide that intelligently classifies millions of archive records. From newspaper pages to standalone news, from manuscripts to authors, our extensive library inventory is directed to independent catalogs optimized for each researcher's needs.
02 / CROSS INDEX SUPPORT
In Wikilala, an author is not just a name. Thanks to the Authors Index, when you click on an author, you can see their serials in newspapers, printed books, and even letters in archives in an integrated window.
03 / FULL TEXT (OCR) EASE
All our visual and periodical publication catalogs have been scanned page by page with AI-supported Turkish and Ottoman OCR scans. This way, you can find not only the title but even a small footnote within the page directly.