Wikilala is a digital library that allows "research" in Ottoman texts (newspapers, magazines, books and documents) printed after the invention of the printing press. There is currently no library that allows the curious or academic researchers to make research in Ottoman texts in Latin script. Until the age of digital printing, researchers had to scan pages and even read line by line to find what they are looking for in Ottoman texts. However, thanks to Wikilala, they can reach all the titles and content they are looking for with a single move in fractions of a second.

Access Link: Wikilala
Date of Access: 31.12.2021 Until

About the Content

• Newspapers: You can search in 15 national and 74 local Ottoman newspapers by typing keywords in a total of nearly 1 million newspaper pages.
• Journals: Search nearly 500 thousand magazine pages in dozens of categories from literature to economics, from sociology to technology.
• Books: Search through a total of 4,658 books in 36 different categories from literature to art, history to science.
• Articles: Search all Ottoman newspaper and magazine articles written from Şinasi's first article titled Mukaddime until the 1930s.
• Documentation: Search official / unofficial documents and papers in dozens of categories, from decrees to certificates, letters to telegrams.
• Others: Search for any Ottoman material you can think of, from projects to maps, postcards to calligraphy boards.