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Summary ACTA TURCICA of the STATE ARCHIVES in DUBROVNIK For the ascertainment of the exact number of Turkish acts: in the State Archives of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) the author has used first of all the preliminary works and the lists of F. Efendić, an Orientalis of the Orchives between 1933-1941 and of J. Ferković, clerk of the Archives between 19215 — 1940 and has personally checked and examined the greater part of Turkish and other documents referring to them. In accordance with the suggestion of the director of the Archives Doctor V. Foretić " the author, only in order to present a better summary has divided this important source of Turkish documents in seven groups i. e.: I. group »Acta Turcarum I« are all Turkish documents and the Croatian, Serbian and Italian translations and originals belonging to them and some Arabian, Jewish and Armenian documents, which Efendić has; signed with A, B, B

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11 C, D, and E subjoining current numbers from 1 up. II. group (»Series 75« are Turkish documents, which Efendić has marked' only with current numbers from No. 1-3.169. 4.001-4.030, 4041-4081 and 4085-4895. III group consists of »A bundle of unsettled und unlisted Turkish lists which were always in the Archives of Dubrovnik«. In this little group (only 189 pieces) there is the original copy of the Turkish Defter (list) of 10 folios from the year 1520 where the taxes of the nobles (aristocracy) of Dubrovnik are specified together with 2-3 documents of the 16th Century. Here is the ferman (edict) from the year 1629 too with a special tugra (the Sultan's signature in special style), very verbose in its contents and typical the economical and commercial relations between Dubrovnik and the Osman Empire, which this author has published in Zbornik Historijskog instituta Jugoslavenske akademije (Vol. 3, Zagreb 1960. page 343-377). IV group are Turkish documents returned from the State Archives of Vienna containing 1112 pieces. \ V group are 43 Turkish documents returned from Vienna in 1948 from which Friedrich KRAELITZ has studied and published 23 pieces (Osmanische Urkunden in türkischer Sprache aus der zweiten Hälfte dös 15. Jahrhunderts, Wien 1921). VI group are documents from Negrini, which were taken over in 1941. by the to-day's Library of Science of Dubrovnik. There are total 95 pieces. VII group consists of the so-called Documents of Zadâr and those are Turkish acts, which were already in. 1836 sent to Zadar and were returned in 1953. On this occasion 20 documents have been added, which were found in the Dragoman Archives of Zadar and according to their contents relate to the agenda of the Republic of Dubrovnik. In this Zadar-grOup there is a great number of original fermans (edicts) from the XVÏ Century, three of them from the year 1490. Two of them are written in Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) by the Sultan Bajezid. Two other written also in Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) by the same Sultan and pulished in 1485. v *