Based on the cooperation agreement between the State Archives of the Republic of Northern Macedonia and the Directorate of State Archives under the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, a scientific research visit was made to the Ottoman Archives in Istanbul at PDART in the period from 03.11. until 09.11. 2019. During the above-mentioned period, and after careful research through the funds of the Ottoman Archive for the history of Macedonia, we decided to continue with very valuable historical archival material from the XIX century where we stopped the previous year, ie census books for Kosovo (Skopje) and Bitola vilayet, however, this year only for the Orthodox population as a continuation of the previous research stay in more than 40 notebooks, ie 4855 pages in the form of a CD. With this realized scientific research DARSM, in addition to acquiring another wealth from a series of previously acquired treasures - historical materials in its depots, also acquires the opportunity to complete its editions of the population censuses in Macedonia during the Ottoman rule. in the XIX century. During the next period, after the translations by our Ottoman scholars of the above material, the greatest benefit besides our historians will have readers who are interested in the past of Macedonia and thus the wider Macedonian public.
Assoc. dr. Adnan Sheriff and prof. dr. Muzafer Bislimi