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Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General...
Catalogue reference: FO 195
What's it about?
FO 195
This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire). Before 1831 the records in this series are copies made from the general correspondence in FO 78
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 195
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1808-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire).
Before 1831 the records in this series are copies made from the general correspondence in FO 78
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By year and then (where applicable) by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Consulates, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
- Foreign Office, Consulates, Turkey, 1923-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Turkey, 1923-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2723 files, papers and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Middle East
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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All political and confidential archives for 1918-1939 were destroyed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7509/
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