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Foreign Office: Embassy, Constantinople (later Istanbul), Turkey (formerly Ottoman...
Catalogue reference: FO 781
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FO 781
This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy in Constantinople (later Istanbul), Ottoman Empire (later Turkey). There is no correspondence for the period 1890 to 1920.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 781
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy, Constantinople (later Istanbul), Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1831-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy in Constantinople (later Istanbul), Ottoman Empire (later Turkey). There is no correspondence for the period 1890 to 1920.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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)
- 66 files, papers and volumes
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8082/
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