Web sites / Blogs / Articles

Institutions:

• İzmir Akdeniz Akademisi [Izmir Mediterranean Academy]
• Crimean memorial Anglican church in Istanbul - Cannon Ian Sherwood
• Crimean Memorial Cemetery in Istanbul - Edwin La Fontaine
• The Catholic St. Rosario church in Alsancak, Izmir
• Venetian Museum – Della Rocca Barozzi - Naxos island, Greece - photos
• Documents pertaining to the Italian Consulate in Istanbul held at the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre
• Salt Research Collections - history of the Ottoman Bank
• Alex Med: The Alexandria and Meditteranean Research Centre
• Description of Alexandria
• Livorno delle Nazioni cultural association - Leghorn Merchant Networks Project
• Astene: The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
• Pera Museum Istanbul on Google Cultural Institute
• Casa Garibaldi / Società Operaia, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
• Hrant Dink Foundation, Revealing and Advocating the Multi-Cultural Heritage of Anatolia Project Interactive Map Beta Version
• BiblioPera: Integrated 9 libraries Beyoğlu Research Centres Network
• French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul - own collection of archive book restoration project through crowd funding, 2016
• Cercle du Levant blog
• Edward Whittall Garden, Bornova - Brian Giraud
• EIEAD - European Institute for the EurAsian Dialogue - info - historical article by Leonardo Manzari and Laura Ebreo
• Orient-Institute, Istanbul
• Istanbul Urban Database
• Istanbul’s living libraries
• Nordic Perspectives on the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1900
• The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Archival Collections
• The Mediterranean Seminar - University of Colorado
• Akdeniz Dünyası Araştırmaları
• French Research Institute of Anatolian Studies online library search
• Istanbul Research Institute online library search
• Istanbul University online library search
• Istanbul Boğaziçi University digital archives
• European Research Library network online search
• Ataturk library, Istanbul
• Middle East Technical University Library online search
• Turkey Council of Higher Education Thesis centre
• SOAS Research Online
• British Library main catalogue
• British Library Newspaper Collections
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• Farabi Digital Library - Ottoman official newspaper etc.
• The National Archives of UK and on-line 1901 etc. census records - sample returns
• Bibliothèques d’Orient
• The New Levant Initiative
• The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative

Bulletin:

• Nuovo Levantino [Online Italian magazine for Italians of Izmir and region]

Resources:

• The story of Maltese migrations
• The diaries of Gertrude Bell, who paid 3 visits to Smyrna meeting with the Levantines.
• Chios and beyond, families and stories
• The Jews of Smyrna - research article / Sépharades du Levant
• The diary of Samuel Medley, butler to the Earl of Kinnoull, British ambassador to Constantinople, covering the dates 16 October, 1733 to 9 November, 1736
• Ambassador Morgenthau’s story, memoirs of the American ambassador in Istanbul between 1913-16.
• Travelogues: Travellers’ Views
• Ottoman Diplomats: Letters from the Imperial Legation in Brussels (1849–1914)
• Plan d’Assurance de Constantinople - Charles E. Goad maps of the city
• Istanbul urban database
• Revue des études byzantines
• George Poulimenos
• Mikrasiatika Chronika Index vol. 1-24 (in excel) - Achilleas Chatziconstantinou

Articles:

• Dragomans’ career change: change of status in some families connected with the British and Dutch embassies at Istanbul 1785-1829 – Alexander H. de Groot – Department of Turkish studies University of Leiden, Holland
• Galata and Pera 1: A Short History, Urban Development Architecture and Today - Afife Batur
• Cyrus Hamlin and the Founding of Robert College
• Concept of Westernisation and the role of foreign architects in 19th century Ottoman architecture – Ayşe Nasir
• Ottoman official attitudes towards American missionaries - Çağrı Erhan - research paper, Yale university
• The marble sarcophagus cover of Sir William Hussey, images
• Gli Italiani a Smirne nei secoli XVIII e XIX [The Italians in Smyrna during the 18th and the 19th centuries] - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis
• Discuss the reception of European diplomats at the Ottoman Court between 1535 and 1720, Kit Hildyard
• History of the British colony at Smyrna by Hyde Clarke - 1862
• British Consular Report on Trade in Smyrna - segments 1906 edition
• The Levant Company in Smyrna - Notes and Queries, 1915
• Smyrna in the seventeenth century - Blackwood magazine, vol CCXII July/Dec 1922- A.C. Wratislaw
• Recherches sur l’histoire de la latinité de Constantinople - E. Dalleggio d’Alessio, 1926
• Licorice - John Uri Lloyd, 1929
• Les inscriptions latines funéraires de Constantinople au moyen âge [Tombstone inscriptions of Constantinople of the Middle Ages] - Eugenio Dalleggio d’Alessio, Revue des études byzantines, 1932
• Le Pietre Sepolcrali di Arab Giami (Antica Chiesa di S. Paolo a Galata) [The tombstones of Arab Mosque (The ancient St. Paul’s Church in Galata)] - Eugenio Dalleggio d’Alessio, Nella Sede Della R. Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Liguria Palazzo Rosso, Genova, 1942
• British Merchants at Alexandretta, 17th-18th Centuries - Major I. E. Gray - Genealogists’ Magazine, March 1945, vol 9, no:12
• Anglo-French rivalry in the Levant from 1583 to 1612 - Arthur Leon Horniker - The Journal of Modern History, 1946
• Boudja past and present’ - Hilda Voltera Barff - ‘Candlesticks’ Izmir Anglican church magazine, winter 1951-52
• Some Aspects of English Trade with the Levant in the Sixteenth Century - T.S. Willan, 1955
• The million dollar bet (includes impresssions of Buck Whaley’s visit to Smyrna and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem for a wager) - John Brinton, 1967 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• An American Judge in Egypt: Jasper Yeates Brinton - William Tracy, 1970 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Italian-speaking communities in early nineteenth century Tunis - Alessandro Triulzi, 1971
• The social basis of English commercial expansion, 1550-1650 - Robert Brenner (The Journal of Economic History), 1972
• The Library of the Levant Company’s factory in Smyrna (1805) - Richard Clogg, the Gleaner v.11, 1974
• The European merchants in Angora - R. D. Barnett - Anatolian studies annual academic journal 1974
• The Role of British Capital in the Economic Development of Western Anatolia, 1850-1913 - Orhan Kurmuş, phd thesis, 1974
• The Construction of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway in Southwestern Anatolia, 1856-1866 - Francisco Javier Valenzuela, 1975
• The Catholic church in Constantinople, 1204-1453 - Charles A. Frazee, Journal of Balkan Studies, 1978
• The Russells of Aleppo - John M. Munro, 1982 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• The Bonfils Story - William H. Rockett, 1983 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• A Gift for the Sultan - Peter English, 1983 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• A College on the Bosporus - Malcolm P. & Marcia R. Stevens, 1984 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Vincentian Missions in the Islamic World - Charles A. Frazee, 1984
• European Views of Early 19th Century Izmir - Reinhold Schiffer, 1986
• Greek Banking in Constantinople, 1850-1881 - Haris Exertzoglou, 1986
• The history of the British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey - Desmond Whittall, 1987
• East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century - Fatma Müge Göçek, 1987
• Greek Mercantile Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1780-1820 - Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Journal of Balkan Studies, 1987
• İzmir Basınında Levantenler (XIX. Yüzyıl’in İkinci Yarısı [Levantines featured in the Izmir Press in the second half of the 19th century] - Şerife Yorulmaz, 1988 - segment
• The role of the tobacco trade in Turkish-American relations, 1923-29 - Robert Carey Goodman III, University of Richmond, 1988
• Orientalist Travelers - Michael Simpson, 1989 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Carpet trade in Smyrna, 1990
• Conditions of Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Appraisal of Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Documents from Aleppo - R. Murphey, 1990
• Trade practices in Aleppo in the middle of the 18th century: the case of a British merchant - Elena Frangakis-Syrett, 1991
• The Ethnic Structure of Galata - Eldem Edhem, Biennual Istanbul, 1992
• Smyrna in 1821: A Russian View - Theophilus C. Prousis, 1992
• The Motives, Pattern and Form of Anglo-Ottoman Diplomatic Relations c. 1580-1661 - Liane Saunders, 1993
• Salonica. Port-Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean 1800-1914 - Basil C. Gounaris, 1993
• A late eighteenth-century Austrian attempt to develop the Red Sea trade route - Middle Eastern Studies, Daniel Crecelius, 1994
• The Origins of Modern Banking in the Levant: The Branch Network of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1890-1914 - Christopher Clay, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1994
• Belgians of Egypt -Samir Raafat - Egyptian mail, 1995
• Les Arméniens catholiques de Smyrne aux XVIII et XIXème siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis, Revue du Monde Arménien Moderne et Contemporain, Société des Etudes Arméniennes, Paris, 1995-96
• Art and diplomacy in Ottoman Constantinople - Philip Mansel, 1996
• Conflicts between the Dutch merchants and the Ottoman local authorities according to the ‘Felemenk Ahdnâme Defteri’ dated 1091/1680 - Bülent Arı, 1996
• TB, a Levant Company Factor on Pilgrimage, 1669 - Jonathan Picarsic, 1997
• Public Monuments in Turkey and Egypt, 1840-1916 - Klaus Kreiser, 1997
• The “Arabick” Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England - The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1997; Saliba, George
• The West and the Middle East - Bernard Lewis - Foreign Affairs v. 76 (Jan./Feb. 1997) p. 114-30
• Some Merchant Families in Constantinople Before, During and After the Fall of the City 1453 - Klaus-Peter Matschke, 1997
• Commerce in the Eastern Mediterrenean from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries: The city-port of Izmir and its hinterland - Elena Fangakis-Syrett, 1998
• “Errand of Mercy”: American Women Missionaries and Philanthropists in the Near East, 1820-1930 - Dimitra Giannuli, Journal of Balkan Studies, 1998
• Trades in Constantinople in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century - Miki Iida, 1998
• From Smyrna to Stewartstown, Ireland: A numistatist’s epigraphic notebook - a study of the work of Henry Perigal Borell (1795-1831) by David Whitehead - 1999
• Archives for the Protestant Cemetery of Feriköy - Mr Stier: The cultural Attaché, German Consulate, Taksim, Istanbul, 1999
• St. John’s the Evangelist Church in Izmir - Ft Ron Rogers, 1999
• The Profit Tax Rolls of Non-Ottoman Subjects at Izmir - Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu, Turkish historical society bulletin, December 1999
• The Imperial Ottoman Bank: Actor or Instrument of Ottoman Modernization - Edhem Eldem, 1999
• The economic activities of Ottoman and Western communities in eighteenth century Izmir - Elena Fangakis-Syrett, 1999
• Struggles over the shore: building the quay of Izmir (1867-1875) - Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2000
• Belgium in the Ottoman Capital, From the Early Steps to ‘la Belle Epoque’ - part 1, part 2, 2000
• The gradual loss of Levantine identity - Alex Tahinci, 2000
• A Survey of the Bornova Anglican Cemetery in Izmir, Turkey - Sally Gallia, 2000
• Ottoman Perceptions of the Capitulations 1800-1914 - Feroz Ahmad, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2000
• Making of an Ottoman port: The quay of Izmir in the nineteenth century - The Journal of Transport History - Elena Fangakis-Syret, Mar 2001
• Public space and urban citizens: Ottoman Izmir in the remaking, 1840-1890 - thesis by Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2001
• The Danish Flag in the Mediterranean Shipping and Trade, 1747-1807 - Dan H. Andersen - University of Copenhagen 2001 php thesis
• The Mamluk System of Rule in the Eyes of Western Travellers’ - Ulrich Haarmann, 2001
• A Levantine life: Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman court - Emre Aracı, 2002
• ‘The Cultural Contributions of the Levantines of Izmir’ - İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 2002
• The Bailo in Constantinople: Crisis and Career in Venice’s Early Modern Diplomatic Corps - Eric R. Dursteller, 2002
• The Levant Trade in the Middle Ages - John Day, 2002
• Commercial Networks of Cooperation in the Venetian Mediterranean: The English and the Greeks, a Case Study - Maria Fusaro - Commercial Networks in the Early Modern World, 2002
• Mr and Mrs Barker and Family: Franks in the Levant - Deborah Manley, Archaeology & History in the Lebanon, 2002
• The Role of the Ottomans and Dutch in the Commercial Integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century - Mehmet Bulut, 2002
• Beyond the Northern invasion: the Mediterranean in the seventeenth century, Past and Present, 174, 41-70 - Molly Greene, 2002 - summary
• Smyrne à la fin de l’Empire Ottoman un cosmopolitism si voyant - Hervé Georgolin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003) - English summary
• The Ambassador, the Sultan and the Artist, an Audience in Istanbul” - archive information on an exhibition in Holland held in 2003 of the relationship between the Dutch envoy Cornelis Calkoen, the Sultan Ahmed III, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, and the painter the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Vanmour
• Ottoman Postal and Telegraph Services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century - Ayşegül Okan, 2003
• The First Dutch Ambassador in Istanbul: Cornelis Haga and the Dutch Capitulations of 1612 - Bülent Arı, 2003
• The Diplomatic Trinity: Ambassadors, Dragomans and the Porte - Aykut Gürçağlar, 2003
• English Dragomans and Oriental Secretaries: The Early Nineteenth Century Origins of the Anglicization of the British Drogmanat in Constantinople - G.R. Berridge - Diplomacy and Statecraft, volume 14, Dec. 2003, number 4, Frank Cass Journal, London
• Cosmopolitan imperialists and the Ottoman port cities: conflicting logics in the urban social fabric - Malte Fuhrmann, University of Berlin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003)
• Coexistences et réseaux de relations à Smyrne aux XVIII et XIX siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003)
• ‘A most agreeable and pleasant creature’? Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa and the Dutch in the Levant (1668-1682) - Merlijn Olnon, 2003
• Russian Trade Prospects in Smyrna: An 1812 Consular Report - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2003
• The beginning of Dutch navigation and trade with the Levant - Daniel Koster, 2003
• Making Business between the Atlantic and Levant during the mercantilist ages - Mehmet Bulut
• Merchantile gentelman and inquisitive travellers: constructing the natural history of Aleppo - Janet C.M. Starkey, 2004
• New interpretations of domestic space and life: The emergence of apartment buildings in nineteenth century Istanbul - Dilşad Gözübüyük Melek, 2004
• Notes on the origins of the diplomatic corps: Constantinople in the 1620s - G.R. Berridge, 2004
• Early Ottoman Diplomacy: Ad Hoc Period - Bülent Arı, 2004
• Ottoman Territoriality Versus Maritime Usage: The Ottoman Islands and English Privateering in the Wars with France 1689-1714 - Colin Heywood, Insularités ottomanes, 2004
• West Anatolian Carpet Designs: The Effect of Carpet Trade between Otoman Empire and Great Britain - Elvan Anmac & Filiz Adıgüzel Toprak, 2004
• Ottoman Territoriality Versus Maritime Usage: The Ottoman Islands and English Privateering in the Wars with France 1689-1714 - Colin Heywood, Insularites Ottoman, p. 145-173 - 2004
• Istanbul’s Vanished City of the Dead: The Grand Champs des Morts - Brian Johnson, 2005
• Cosmopolitan: A Tale of Identity from Ottoman Alexandria - Maya Jasanoff, 2005
• Development of railways in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey - Master’s Thesis, Sena Bayraktaroğlu, 2005
• Competing for Aleppo’s souls: The Roman Catholic and Protestant missions in the Ottoman period - Bruce Masters, Archaeology & History in the Lebanon, issue 22, 2005
• Gerald Harman Warner eyewitness account of Smyrna 1922 - Jenny Saggers, 2005
• Ottoman Financial Integration with Europe: Foreign Loans, the Ottoman Bank and the Ottoman Public Debt - Edhem Eldem, 2005
• Architecture, identity and liminality: On the use and meaning of Catholic spaces in late Ottoman Istanbul - Paolo Girardelli, 2005
• The Logic of the Ottoman Capitulations - Timur Kuran, 2005
• Forgetting the Smyrna Fire - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2005
• Mediators Between East and West: Christians Under Mamluk Rule - Johannes Pahlitzsch, 2005
• Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2005
• A short history of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Turkey - Rıfat N. Bali, 2006
• Urban Transfomation of Ottoman Port Cities in the Nineteenth Century: Change from Ottoman Beirut to French Mandatory Beirut - thesis by Pelin Kihtir Öztürk, 2006
• Venetian Consuls in Egypt and Syria in the Ottoman Age - Maria Pia Pedani, 2006
• A study of Ottoman Modernisation on the City: The Sixth Municipal District of Istanbul (1858-1877) - Master’s Thesis, N. Işık Demirkan, 2006
• Levantine Heritage in Izmir - Onur İnal, MA Thesis, 2006
• “Osmanlı Devrinin Kadın Doğum Hekimlerinden [One Of The Obstetricians Of The Ottoman Period] Dr. A. Vuccino (1829-1893)” - Yeşim Işıl Ülman, Hastane, 2006
• La présence culturelle française dans l’Empire ottoman à l’âge de la compétition coloniale en Europe (1870-1914) - Paul Dumont (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), 2006
• The Tangled Ends of an Empire: Ottoman Encounters with the West and Problems of Westernization — an Overview - Engin Deniz Akarlı, 2006
• Comparison of the Turkish and European Quarters of Izmir of the nineteenth century - Master’s Thesis, Mustafa Demiralp, 2006
• A historical panaroma of an Istanbul neighbourhood: Cihangir from the late Nineteenth century to 2000s - Binnaz Tuğba Sasanlar, 2006
• The Dutch Merchants and their activities between the Atlantic and Levant during the mercantilist ages - Mehmet Bulut, 2006
• Commercial Practices and Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 18th century: the Entrepreneurial Organization of the Levantine trade - Katerina Galani, 2006
• Ottoman Imports in the Eighteenth Century: Smyrna (1771–72) - A. Mesud Küçükkalay & Numan Elibol, 2006
• A brief history of the British pharmacy in Istanbul - Halil Tekiner, Pharmaceutical historian, 2006
• Italian Architects and Modern Egypt - Cristina Pallini, 2006
• The Ionian Sea in the 19th Century: Ports, the port system and the formation of the Ionian commercial and maritime network - Panayiotis Kapetanakis, 2007
• Les Greco-Catholiques à Istanbul - Fr. Ange Michel, 2007
• 19. Yüzyılda İzmir’de İtalyan Cemaati - Mevlüt Çelebi, 2007
• Bedlam in Beirut: A British Perspective in 1826 - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2007
• Perceiving French Presence in the Levant: French Subjects in the Sicil of 18th Century Ottoman Salonica - Eyal Ginio, 2007
• Between stumbling and fall towards insolvency: The endeavours of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century - MA Thesis, Ekrem Karademir, 2007
• Information about the Greek educational institutions of Smyrna - George Vassiadis, 2007
  
• Italian Architects in Smyrna - Cenk Berkant, (The First International Conference on the presence of Italian Architects in Mediterranean Countries), 2007
• The Kampos of Chios: A Comparative Study of Multicultural Blend in Architectural Type and Urban Fabric - Emiliano Bugatti, 2007
• Remembering Smyrna / Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma - Leyla Neyzi, 2008
• Grieving Cosmopolitanism in Middle East Studies - Will Hanley, 2008
• Sports activities of English in Izmir (last of 19th century, beginning of 20th century) - Hasan Mert, 2008
• The German involvement in Ottoman economic development: banking, railways and other investments, 1888-1914 - MA Thesis, Halil Ege Özen, 2008
• The reverberating space of Izmir: Levantines interpenetrating homes - Selin Ayşe Kaner, Thesis, 2008
• Capitulations and Negotiations: The Role of the Venetian Consul in Early Ottoman Egypt - Yutako Horii, 2008
• Osmanlı/Türk Müzik Kültüründe Levanten Müzikçiler [Levantine Musicians in the Musical Culture of Ottoman Turks] - Seyit Yöre, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 24, pp. 413-437, 2008
• The Fearless and Self-reliant Servant: The Life and Times of Sir Alfred Biliotti (1833-1915), and Italian Levantine in British Service - David Barchard, 2008
• Modernleşme sürecinde Izmir’de Italyanlarin Eğitimi [The history education of Italians in Izmir] - Halil Özeçoğlu, 2008
• Communal Relations in Izmir / Symrna, 1826-1864: As seen through the prism of Greek-Turkish Relations - N. Feryal Tansuğ, 2008
• Co-Existence and Conflict Between Muslims and Non-Muslims in the 16th Century Ottoman Istanbul - Hasan Çolak, 2008
• A Delve into Displacement: Who imagines the Levantine identity? - Nikola Haddad-Edizel, 2009
• The Ottoman Empire and the American flag: Patriotic travel before the age of package tours, 1830–1870 - Susan Nance, 2009
• Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of The Third Big City of Alsancak, İzmir, Turkey - Malike Özsoy, 2009
• Entrepreneurship and relational capital in a Levantine Context: The Abbott of Salonica (18th-19th century) - Despina Vlami, 2009
• Le Levant, une identité oubliée? [The Levant, a forgotten identity]- Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis, 2009
• “A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal - Anthony Carmen Piccirillo, 2009
• England, the Ottomans and the Barbary Coast in the late sixteenth century - Dr Christine Woodhead, 2009
• Negotiating the field: American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Syria, 1823 to 1860 - Christine Beth Lindner, 2009
• Vertical Bazaars of Modernity: Western Department Stores and Their Staff in Istanbul (1889–1921) - Yavuz Köse, 2009
• İzmir San Antonio Katolik Hastanesi - Mevlüt Çelebi, 2009
• 19. yüzyıl’da Amerikan Birleşik Devletleri’nin İzmir’deki konsolosluk faaliyetleri [Activities of the American consulate of Smyrna in the 19th century] - thesis by Onur Kırlı, 2009
• Metamorfosi Urbane Mediterranee Salonicco e Smirne: costruzione e ricostruzione delle identità [Urban Mediterranean transformation in Salonica and Smyrna: Construction and reconstruction of identity] - Emiliano Bugatti, 2009
• The role of Alvies Gritti within the Ottoman politics in the context of the “Hungarian Question” (1526-1534) - Elvin Otman, 2009
• Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and crossings in the early modern Mediterranean - E. Natalie Rothman, 2009
• Glass Bridges: Cross-Cultural Exchange between Florence and the Ottoman Empire - Reena Devi (University of Edinburgh), Master Thesis, 2009
• The Case of Currants: The Levant Company Monopoly as a Stimulus for Bristol’s Illicit Trade 1590-1666 - Charlie Gent, 2009
• Class and cosmopolitanism: the historiographical fortunes of merchants in Eastern Mediterranean ports - Athanasios Gekas, 2009
• Mersin Levanten Yapıları Üzerine Bir İnceleme [A study on Levantine buildings of Mersin] - thesis by Gülizar Açık Güneş, 2010
• Dressing Turks in the French manner: Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s panaroma of the Ottoman Empire - Elisabeth A. Fraser, ARS Orientalis 39, 2010
• Looking East, Jean-Etienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter - Kristel Smentek, ARS Orientalis 39, 2010
• Down and out on the quays of Izmir: ‘European’ musicians, innkeepers, and prostitutes in the Ottoman port-cities - Malte Fuhrmann, 2010
• Transformation of the nineteenth century urban fabric in Istanbul’s historical peninsula: Storari grid layouts - Tan Kamil Gürer, Pınar Gözek, 2010
• Arap Camii in Istanbul: Its Architecture and Frescoes - Haluk Çetinkaya, Anatolia Antiqua, 2010
• Apparition et développement de la presse francophone d’Istanbul dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle - Seza Sinanlar Uslu, Université Technique de Yildiz, 2010
• Cosmopolitanism in the Middle East as part of global history - Ulrike Freitag, 2010
• From Capitulations to Unequal Treaties: The Matter of an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire - Eliana Augusti, 2010
• Maltese survivors of Smyrna - Henry Frendo, 2010
• History of Yachting in Turkey - Brian Giraud, 2010
• Western Diplomacy, Capitulations and Ottoman Law in the Mediterranean (16-17th centuries) - Viorel Panaite, 2010
• The building of Istanbul docks 1870-1910: Some new entrepreneurial and cartographic data - Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, 2010
• A “Compassionate” Episode in Anglo-Ottoman History: British Relief to the ’93 Refugees (1877-78) - Sadiye Sena Dinçyürek, 2010
• Between the Great Idea and Kemalism: The YMCA at Izmir in the 1920s - Samuel David Lenser, Boise State University, 2010
• How to research archives in a Levantine context - Craig Encer, 2010
• Politics, Trade, and Diplomacy: The Anglo-Ottoman Relationship, 1575-1699 - Maria Blackwood, Yale University, 2010
• A Journey into the World of the Ottomans: the Art of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737) - Olga Nefedova, 2010
• Commercial Philanthropy: American Missionaries and the American Turkish Opium Trade - Tim Roberts, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2010
• French Direct Investments in the Ottoman Empire Before World War I - V. Necla Geyikdağı, 2011
• Theatre in Nineteenth Century Istanbul: Cases for the Translation of an Architectural Typology – Ezgi Yazıcı, 2011
• Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands - E. Natalie Rothman, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2011
• Kültürleşmenin Bir Parçası Olarak Osmanlı’da Operanın Görünümü [View of Opera in the Ottoman Empire as a Part of Acculturation] - Seyit Yöre, Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, Vol. 3, No.2, pp. 53-69, 2011
• İstanbul’un Modernleşme Dönemi Otelleri (1840-1914) [Istanbul’s Modernizaton-Period Hotels (1840-1914)] - Elif Çelebi Yakartepe, Can Binan, 2011
• An English architect in the 19th century Istanbul: William James Smith and Taşkışla - Aygül Ağır, Afife Batur, V. Gül Cephanecigil, Seda Kula Say, Mine Topçubaşı Çilingiroğlu, A. Hilal Uğurlu - TUBİTAK-SOBAG, 2011
• Fighting Contraband in the European Provinces of the Ottoman Empire (1881-1912): European Bondholders vs Ottoman Smugglers and Peasants - Angelos A. Chotzidis, 2011
• Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into Izmir - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2011
• Mediterranean History as Global History - David Abulafia, 2011
• Une société hors de soi, identités et relations sociales à Smyrne aux XVIIIe et XIX siècles (Mélanie Turco) - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis – (vol. 82 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2011)
• Notes on the family wealth and career progression of Cristoforo Tarsia and his sons, Dragomans of the Venetian Embassy in Constantinople (1618-1716) - Cristian Luca, 2011
• A Business Alla Turca? Levant Trade and the Representation of Ottoman Merchants in Eighteenth Century European Commercial Literature - Mathieu Grenet, 2011
• “Malhamé – Malfamé”: Levantine Elites and Transimperial Networks on the Eve of the Young Turk Revolution - Jens Hanssen, 2011
• Freemasonary in eighteenth-century Izmir? A critical analysis of Alexander Drummond’s travels (1754) - Maurits H. van den Boogert, 2012
• A Modern Idea of Town: the Istanbul Pera-Beyoğlu District from Late Ottoman Period to 1930s (contribution summary to the Istanbul city portrait international conference, 2012) - Emiliano Bugatti
• 19th Century Painted Trays from Museum and Private Collections in Greece and Turkey - Dr. Myrto Hatzaki and Flavia Nessi Yazitzoglou, 2012
• History of the St. Antonio Hospital in Izmir - Linda Tito, 2012
• Hotel Huck Smyrna: Outstanding Hotel of the Glorious Port-City - Ali Özkan, 2012
• Sydney La Fontaine’s Carpet Warehouse and Depot - Taylan Zeybek, 2012
• The Tomb of Ludwik Michal Pac in St. Polycarp Church - Fabio Tito, 2012
• Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry - Emrah Safa Gürkan, PhD Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2012
• Credit and Financing in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The Galata Example - Sümeyye Hoşgör, 2012
• L’amministrazione italiana del Dodecaneso, in L. Pignataro (ed.), A proposito del Dodecaneso italiano, “Res Publica. Rivista di studi storico-politici internazionali”, 8(2014), 11-21 (atti della giornata di studi Un centenario dimenticato. Il Dodecaneso italiano: istituzioni, religione e cultura, December 5th 2012, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy)
• The Anglo-Ottoman Encounter: Diplomacy, Commerce, and Popular Culture, 1580-1650 - Steven A. Roy, 2012
• Visual Cosmopolitanism and Creative Translation: Artistic Conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II’s Constantinople - Gülru Necipoğlu, 2012
• Between Westernatization and Orientalism: Italian Architects and Restorers in Istanbul from the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th - Maurizio Boriani, 2012
• The French Revolution’s Gift to the Ottomans: The Newspaper, The Emergence of Turkish Media - Ali Budak, 2012
• Smyrna Rest: The Birth of the Greek Evangelical Association in a Coffee House in Alsancak (1880-1913) - Funda Adıtatar, 2012
• Edouard Roditi and the Istanbul Avant-Garde - Clifford Endres, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 54, No. 4, Winter 2012, 471-493
• Visualizing a Space of Encounter: Intimacy, Alterity, and Trans-Imperial Perspective in an Ottoman-Venetian Miniature Album - E. Natalie Rothman, 2012
• The story of the Izmir - Aydın Railway and the Walker family - Ali Özkan, 2013
• Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean - Francisco Apellániz, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2013
• ‘A Continual Tavern in My House’: Food and Diplomacy in Early Modern Constantinople - Eric R Dursteler, Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, eds. Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013
• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and “Nominal Christians”: Elias Riggs (1810-1901) and American Missionary Activities in the Ottoman Empire - Mehmet Ali Doğan, 2013
• The Sultan’s Entrepreneurs, The Entrepreneurs’ Sultan: Beratlı Avrupa Tüccarı and Institutional Change in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire (1835-1868) - Said Salih Kaymakçı, 2013
• Encounters at the Seams: English "Self Fashioning" in the Ottoman World, 1563-1718 - Jen Barrer-Gall, 2013
• Beit Ghazaleh Research Project, Famille Gazalé/Gazaleh Family, Jdeideh Aleppo, Syria 2010-13: Report
• The Levant Company Between Trade and Politics: or, the Colony That Wasn’t - Martin Devecka, 2013
• Traders and New Ideas about the East: The British Levant Company and the discourse on the Ottoman Empire, 1581-1774 - Jonathan S. Couch, 2013
• The making of an Ottoman port-city: The State, local elites and urban space in Salonica, 1870-1912 - Sotirios Dimitriadis, 2013
• Fonds for the Sultan: How to use Venetian sources for studying Ottoman history? - Emrah Safa Gürkan, 2013
• Late Ottoman Resort Houses in Istanbul: Büyükada and Kadıköy - Irmak Köseoğlu, 2013
• Latin missionaries and Catholics in Constantinople 1650-1760: Between local religious culture and confessional determination - Laura Elisabeth Binz, 2013
• Sayfiye to Banlieue: Suburban landscape around Anatolian Railways from mid-nineteenth century to the World War II - Ebru Salah, 2013
• Latin-Rite Christians in Early Modern Istanbul - Eric Dursteler, International Symposium on Ottoman Istanbul - I, 2013
• Osmanlı Dönemi’nde İzmir’de Bir Cemaat: İzmir’de Alman İzleri [The legacy of the Germans in Smyrna] 1752-1922 - İlhan Pınar, 2013
• The Protégé System and Beratli Merchants in the Ottoman Empire: The Price of Legal Institutions - Cihan Artunç, 2013
• Turquerie: Culture in motion, 1650-1750 - Alexander Bevilacqua, 2013
• Consuls of Smyrna: Their Place in the City and the Empire in the 17th and 18th Centuries - Sadık Can Perinçek, 2013
• Archiving, Remembering, Aestheticizing “Old” Istanbul: The Case of the Fabiato Mansion - Cicek Ilengiz, 2013
• Being a Western Merchant in the Ottoman Mediterranean - Viorel Panaite, 2013
• Italian Contributions to Turkish Paediatrics during the Ottoman Empire - Murat Yurdakök, Luigi Cataldi, 2013
• Urban Transformation in Ottoman-Mediterranean Region: A comparative study of Hamiye and Alsancak - Günseli Gürel, 2014
• Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Otoman Empire - Robert J. Clines, 2014
• Venetian Vagabonds and Furious Frenchmen: Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Impulses among Europeans in Galata - Julia Anne Landweber, Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies, XLIV, 2014
• Impacts of a Levantine Bourgeois Family; The “Whittalls” in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire - Zeynep Naz Simer, 2014
• Sultan’s America: Lessons from Ottoman Encounters with the United States - Emrah Şahin, Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 2014
• Alexander Vallaury’s late works on İzmir, Thessaloniki and Eminönü custom houses and notes on the agenda of Ottoman architecture at the turn of the century - Seda Kula Say, 2014
• The American Protestant Missionary Network in Ottoman Turkey, 1876-1914 - Devrim Ümit PhD, 2014
• The Anglo-Ottoman Trade 1700-1800: Goods, Volume and Balance of Trade - Numan Elibol & Erol Ozvar, 2014
• Her Majesty’s Protected Subjects: The Mishaqa Family in Ottoman Damascus - Erdoğan Keskinkılıç & Ebubekir Ceylan, 2014
• Constantinople Confidential: News and Information in the Diary of Jean-Louis Rigo (c.1686-1756), Secretary of the Dutch Embassy in Istanbul - Rosanne Baars, 2014
• The Italians of Istanbul between 1873-1910 and their properties: An analysis through the property petitions addressed to the Italian Embassy - Zeynep Cebeci Suvari, 2014
• The rise of Ottoman Izmir as a commercial centre - Tuğçe Atik, 2014
• Reconstruction of collective memory through spacial representations of Izmir waterfront, since the 1920s - Pınar Yüksel, 2014
• Ottoman Visions of the West (15th-17th Centuries) - Arda Eksigil, 2014
• ‘Levantine’ Dragomans in Nineteenth Century Istanbul: The Pisanis, the British, and Issues of Subjecthood - Frank Castiglione, The Journal Of Ottoman Studies, 2014
• Rediscovering the 19th Century of a Port Town in Levant: Smyrna/Izmir - Burcu Tasci, Büke Özden, Fatma Davras, Hümeyra Birol Akkurt - Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2015
• Between Trade and Religion: Three Florentine Merchants in Mamluk Cairo - Giuseppe Cecere, 2015
• Eating bread together: Hapsburg Diplomacy and Intelligence-Gathering in Mid Sixteenth-Century Istanbul - María José Rodríguez-Salgado, 2015
• Capturing Constantinople: Travel albums (1884-1910) - Sibel Acar, 2015
• A transient colony in the valley of the Nile: The history of the Maltese colony in Egypt throughout the 19th and 20th century - Nicholas D. Chircop, 2015
• A British touch on Tanzimat: Architect William James Smith - Esma İgüs, Journal of Ottoman Legacy Studies, 2015
• The professional elite in mid-seventeenth century Constantinople: the Danish physician Hans Andersen Skovgaard (1604–1656) in the last decade of his life and career - Cristian Luca, Social and Political Elites in Eastern and Central Europe (15th-18th Centuries), 2015
• Petitions of the Supplicant Ambassador: British Commercial Representations to the Ottoman State in the Eighteenth Century - Michael Talbot, 2015
• The international news agencies in the Ottoman Empire (1854-1908) - Servet Yanatma, 2015
• The Ottoman Empire and Cricket: From Istanbul to Cape Town - Michael Talbot, 2015
• The first Spanish Ambassador to the Sublime Porte: Juan de Bouligny and his early activities in Istanbul based on his diary - Ayşe Çiçek Ünal, 2015
• The Genoese Levantine colonies at the birth of Ottoman Imperial power: A framework for inquiry - Padraic Rohan, 2015
• Büyükada, its summer residences and the bourgeois Ottoman interior at the turn of the twentieth century, Zeynep Ceylanlı, 2015
• The Role of Dragomans in the Ottoman Empire - Elvin Abbasbeyli, 2015
• New approaches of British and Ionian presence in ports and grain-markets of the Russian Black Sea and the Danube (mid-18th – mid-19th century) - Panos Kapetanakis, 2015
• The British Mercantile Interest in the Ottoman Trade Market: A Historical Analysis of the Levant Company - Emine Zeytinli, Proceedings of the Symposium on Business and Economic History, 2015
• Sources for Levantine History - Lorans Tanatar Baruh, 2015
• Izmir’de yerel ve Levanten kültürünün duvar ve tavan resimlerine yansıması [The reflection of regional and Levantine culture on wall and ceiling paintings in Izmir], Prof. Dr. Selçuk Mülayim Armağanı Sanat Tarihi Araştırmaları, (Ed. A. Doğanay), Istanbul - İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 2015
• Turkey-Vatican Relations from the Ottomans to the Republic - Ahmet Türkan, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2015
• The French Catholic Missionaries in Lebanon between 1860 and 1914 - Serkan Gul, 2015
• The first Protestants in the Arab World: The contribution to Christian mission of the English Aleppo chaplains 1597-1782 - Andrew Lake, Melbourne School of Theology, 2015
• Lingua Franca: a not so simple pidgin - Joanna Nolan, 2015
• From the Polish Times of Pera: Late Ottoman Istanbul through the Lens of Polish Emigration - Paulina Dominik, 2015
• Marseille, port de la Turquie - English version - Patrick Boulanger, Conservateur du Patrimoine culturel de la CCI Marseille Provence, 2015
• Les Achats Français d’Huiles Egéennes au XVIIIe Siècle - Patrick Boulanger, 2015
• Les archives de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Marseille Provence - Patrick Boulanger, 2015
• England’s Forgotten Muslim History - Jerry Brotton, 2016
• The Ottoman East and the ‘Moral Geography’ of Europe’s Enlightenment - Karen Bird, Limina Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2016
• Yusuf Agâh Efendi and the first permanent embassy of the Ottoman State in London - Merve Kardelen Bilir, 2016
• Reflections of Socio-Cultural Changes on Urban Space in the 19th Century: The Case of Bursa - Elif Secer, Selen Durak, and Tulin Vural Arslan, 2016
• The Transformation of Pera into the Cultural District of Istanbul in the Second Half of the 19th Century - M. Sami Bayram, 2016
• Ottoman Istanbul from the Perspective of the Catholic Missionaries in the Post-Tridentine Period (End of 16th - 17th centuries) - Elmira Vassileva, International Symposium on Ottoman Istanbul - IV, 2016
• “A Tale of Two Cities” in the Eastern Mediterranean: History of Thessaloniki and Izmir in 19th and 20th Centuries in Comparative Perspective - Alp Yücel Kaya & Dilek Akyalçın Kaya, Izmir Mediterranean Academy, 2016
• Interview with Luca Orlandi part:1 The city and architecture - part: 2 The Levantine World, 2016
• Sublime Purveyor of Levantine Trade and Taste: The David van Lennep Family Portrait - Caroline Mesrobian Hickman, PhD, presentation at the LHF Conference London, 2016
• La presse francophone dans l’Empire ottoman. Histoire et numérisation - Lorans Tanatar Baruh, 2016
• Venetian Mamluk mode and Gentile Bellini - Maria Pia Pedani, 2016
• Ticaret ve Diplomasi: Galata’da Dubrovnikliler (1600-1700) - Metin Ziya Köse, 2016
• Janos Hoberdanecz’s Embassy to Constantinople - Mahmut Halef Cevrioğlu, 2016
• In the Process of Being Levantines. The ‘Levantinization’ of the Catholic Community of Izmir (1683-1724) - Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Turkish Historical Review, 2016
• Yankee Levantine: David Offley and Ottoman-American relations in the early nineteeth century - Ayşegül Avcı, 2016
• Contending sovereigns, Contentious spaces: Illicit Migration and Urban Governance in the Late Ottoman Empire - Ayşe Polat - Global Histories, 2017
• Interview | Hervé Georgelin: La fin de Smyrne, du cosmopolitisme aux nationalismes - Grèce Hebdo, 2017
• Brief History of an English-Language Journal in the Ottoman Empire: The Levant Herald and Constantinople Messenger (1859-1878) - Burhan Çağlar, 2017
• From immigrants to emigrants: Salesian education and the failed integration of Italians in Egypt, 1937-1960 - Annalaura Turiano & Joseph John Viscomi, 2017
• Highbrow Harem Portraiture, or Turquerie and Its Discontents in the Eighteenth Century - Jennifer Lynn Kirsch, 2017
• Gendering East and West: Transnational Politics of Belonging in the Ottoman Empire and France, 1718-1905 - Ayse Neveser Koker, 2017
• Cosmopolitan Athens: the communities of western-Europeans in Athens in the 19th century - N. Potamianos, 2017
• Paolo Caccia Dominioni’s work for the Italian embassy at Ankara - Cristina Pallini & Armando Scaramuzzi, 2017
• Claiming Livorno: Commercial Networks, Foreign Status, and Culture in the Italian Jewish Diaspora, 1815-1914 - Alyssa J. Reiman, 2017
• Best of Enemies: Europeans in the Ottoman Elite - Tobias P. Graf, History Today, 2018
• A British Merchant in Turkey: Freeman of the Levant Company and Consul, Donald Sandison at Bursa, 1795-1868 - Emine Zeytinli, 2018
• Anglicanism in Smyrna (1815-1923) - Chris Royer, Global Missiology, 2018
• Venetian-Ottoman Peace Agreement or ‘Ahd-name in 1478/79 - Sena Hacıosmanoğlu, 2018
• Urban palimpsest at Galata & an architectural inventory study for the Genoese colonial territories in Asia Minor - H. Sercan Sağlam, 2018
• Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City - Edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, Brill 2018
• One of Turkey’s Germans: Portrait of the Orientalist Friedrich Schrader - Ceyda Nurtsch, Qantara.de, 2018
• Danger faces Egypt’s neglected Wonder of the Ancient World. Who will save the city of Alexandria? - David Wardrop, 2018
• Dishonorable Ambassadors? Spies and Secret Diplomacy in Ottoman Istanbul - Emrah Safa Gürkan, 2018
• Visiting the Noble Jerusalem: Catholic Pilgrims in the Ottoman Capitulations of the Seventeenth Century - Radu Dipratu, 2018
• Protestant Writings about the Official Recognition and Protection of Protestant Subjects in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1856) - David Hosaflook, Institute of Albanian and Protestant Studies, 2018
• The Latin Catholic Church Settlement in Mersin during the late Ottoman Period - Selin Çoruh, 2019
• A Struggle for Survival: Genoese Diplomacy with the Sublime Porte in the Face of Spanish and French Opposition - F. Özden Mercan, 2019
• Reminiscences of Ottoman vernacular in Galata - ISVS e-journal, Luca Orlandi, 2019
• Electrification of İstanbul (1878-1923) - Aysal Cin, Ulaş Duygu, 2019
• Andrea Soldi’s portraits of Levant Company merchants (c. 1733-36): who are they? - Gerald MacLean, 2019
• A Social History of Trans-Imperial Diplomacy in a Crisis Context: Herbert von Rathkeal’s Circles of Belonging in Pera, 1779 –1802 - David Do Paco, The International History Review, 2019
• Mediterranean Futures: Historical Time and the Departure of Italians from Egypt, 1919–1937 - Joseph John Viscomi, The Journal of Modern History 91, no. 2, 2019
• Pontremoli’s cry: Personhood, scale, and history in the Eastern Mediterranean - Joseph John Viscomi, History and Anthropology, 2019
• Women Behind the Lens: The Middle East’s First Female Photographers - Tom Verde, Stephen Sheehi, Issam Nassar, Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Aramco World, 2019
• Çanakkaleli Grech ailesi [Grech family of Chanak] - Osman Öndeş, 2019
• Is there a Diplomat in the House, Sheila Markham, 2020 (with the Travellers Club’s permission).
• Spatial Stories of Izmir: A Narrative Study on the Influence of Trader Families on the Spatial Development of the Port City - Fatma Tanış & Klaske Havik, 2020

Genealogical / Testimonial

• The Maltass & related Whittall, La Fontaine, De Cramer etc. family trees
• Genealogy Levantine Branches Van Lennep, de Hochepied, de la Fontaine, Leystar, Henrick van Lennep, 2018 - web gallery:
• Roots web - Whittall, Maltass, La Fontaine etc.
• Fidao family
• Ashe family of Boudja
• Autobiographical sketch by George C. McVittie, astronomer and scientist
• Werry and Fraser family
• Keun family
• Langdon family
• Henry James Hanson Collection (1838-1935), family archives covering 3 generations
• ‘Tales of an old house and various family origins’ by Helena van der Zee - translated and compiled by Quentin Compton Bishop
• The reports of the Rev. Charles Dobson on the 1922 events of Smyrna
• Curriculum Vitae of Fernando Paolo Aliotti
• Un document Grec, écrit avec des caractèrs Latins, de la famille Missir - Livio Amedeo Missir, 1967
• On Turkey as I knew it - Honorine Gout (1883 - 1986)
• Albert Patrick D’Alessio 1872-after 1955 - Dawn Scotting, 2009
• The “de Andrias”, One specific branch of the “d’Andrias” - Jean-François de Andria, 2010
• Barry family - information
• Imperiale family - information
• Rivans & Hadaway family information
• The big house history revealed - Caroline Zambrano (Steinbuchel) in 1994
• Henri Zipcy (1873-1950) by Michèle Alfonsi translated to English by descendant Catherine Saiko
• Ghisi family
• Badetti family
• Morier family in Smyrna and in Constantinople during the late 18th and early 19th centuries - Henry McKenzie Johnston
• Hoyland and Heald families of Constantinople
• Saalmüller & Bonfils family of Lebanon portraits
  
• Sykes family of Panderma [Bandırma]
• Procter family of Constantinople - Francesca Sorgato, 2012
• Icard family of Smyrna
• Seager family of Bebek, Constantinople
• The Story of Charles Missir, 1869-1927, Smyrna - Marian Verkerk, 2012
• The Story of the Harty family of the Constantinople - Phyllis ‘Les’ Wells (nee Harty), 2012
• Bon family of Smyrna
• Notes on Susan Maltass - Sheila Thomas, 2013
• Arachtingi, Missir etc. families
• Privilegio Family of Smyrna and Constantinople
• Marengo family (in Italian)
• William Barker - Member of the Right Worshipful Levant Company, 1731-1825 - Marjorie Rear, 2015
• Maurice Farkoa, press articles - Isabelle Ferrary
• Gaston John Fercken - Richard Fercken, 2016
• S. Ralph Harlow: An American chaplain in Smyrna; the history behind the NATO base
• The Bobbitt Family in the Levant – Francie Kieffer, 2019 (updated)
• Famille Joaillier en France & Turquie
• Spartali, Amira de Smyrne

Database listings

• List of British Consular Officials Turkey (1581-1860) (v.3) - David Wilson, 2011
• The listing of the Consuls of Çanakkale (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011
• The listing of the Consuls of Gallipoli (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011
• Listing of people who gave their birthplace as Smyrna, Turkey on the 1851 – 1901 UK censuses, Joyce Cully, 2011
• Listing of a sample of Births, deaths and marriages in Smyrna (1864-1965) obtained from British newspapers, Joyce Cully, 2010
• The Adami Group transcription of Maltese genealogical records
• The Dutch Historical Manuscripts Commission online database for the Levant trade 1590-1826 (six volumes of the Sources to the Levant Trade published between 1910 and 1966 each about 600 pages) - info
• Postal forwarding agents by cities (including some in the Levant) in the 19th century
• Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşiv Rehberi [Central Ottoman Archives register]
• Vincentian Catholic Archives - Salonica, Santorini, St. Benoit, Istanbul 1583-1932: Catalogue F. GORLIN cm, Middle East., contenu du meuble des archives de Saint-Benoit.
• Maltese surnames used at the Ionian Islands, part of an exhibition organised by Spyros Gauci, secretary of the Catholic Archibishop of Corfu, 2012
• Anglo-American Cemetery Beirut, Lebanon
• Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records of the British Chapel, Smyrna - Turkey 1795 - 1832
• The registers of the Smyrna Anglican Chaplaincy (1799-1840) held at the Manuscripts Section of Lamberth’s Palace, London
• Levant Company: Admissions of Freemen and Grants of Liberty of Trade, 1695-1824 - David Wilson, 2017
• Levant Company: Earliest members, 1581-1605 - David Wilson, 2017
• Bornova old and new street names table - Frances Clegg, 2018

Photographic archives

• The Blatchford Collection of Photographs at the American University of Beirut, including those of Rubellin, Bonfils
• The US Library of Congress photo collection - Abdul-Hamid II Collection
• Middle East Image Archive
• The Fouad Debbas Collection
• Gertrude Bell Archive
• Travelogues.gr
• Les collections du Musée Albert-Kahn
• Sébah & Joaillier photos
• Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, 1850-1958

Archive trade catalogues

• Oriental Carpet Manufacturers
• The C.J. Giraud company founded in 1914 by Charlton James Giraud (1869-1955)
• Indicateur Commerciales - Smyrna trade registry of 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1898-1899 and 1920
• Indicateur des Professions Commerciales & Industrielle de Smyrne, de l’Anatolie etc. - Smyrna trade registry of 1895 (3rd year)
• Annuaire Oriental du Commerce de l’industrie, de l’administration et de la magistrature pour Turquie, Russie, Greece, Roumanie, Bulgarie par Cervati Frères & Cie, 1891
• Indicateur Égyptien: Administrative et Commercial, 1897
• 1888 Smyrna Guide (in Greek translated to English) - arrangement according to profession, George Poulimenos, 2011 - in excel format: 1888: Originally in Greek, published by Amalthea in Smyrna - 1891: Originally in French, published by Cervati in Constantinople - 1893: Originally in French, published by Nalpas and d’Andria in Smyrna - courtesy of George Poulimenos ()
• Bulletin mensuel de la Chambre de commerce française de Smyrne, 1893-1898
• Adnan Bilget ‘Son Yüzyilda İzmir Şehri: 1849-1949’ [Izmir in the last century: 1849-1949], 1949 - sample
• Lettercovers
• American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant, journals, 1911-1931

Podcasts

• Producing Pera - Ottoman History podcast with Nilay Özlü, 2013
• Dr. Philip Mansel: Friend or foe? The Ottoman Empire and Europe, from Mehmed II to Wilhelm II - Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, 24 October, 2013
• Galata and the Capitulations - Ottoman History podcast with Fariba Zarinebaf, 2014
• Dr. Carole Woodall: ‘Constan Town’ Jazz: A guide to 1920s Beyoğlu - Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, 10 November 2014
• Precursors to the Prince, the grand tour in the Ottoman Empire, Dr Philip Mansel, December 2014 - transcript:
• Venetian Physicians in the Ottoman Empire - Ottoman History podcast with Valentina Pugliano, 2016
• Landscapes of the Eastern Question - Ottoman History podcast with Paolo Girardelli, 2016
• German Expatriates in Late Ottoman Istanbul - Ottoman History podcast with Philipp Wirtz, 2016
• Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court, with Tracy Sowerby, Maxwell Hudson, Aneliya Stoyanova, Talitha Schepers, 2017
• Izmir & Thessaloniki: from Empire to Nation-State - Ottoman History podcast with Kalliopi Amygdalou, 2017
• Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria - Ottoman History podcast with Will Hanley, 2018
• French Child Ambassadors in the East - Episode 103, 15 minute history, February 2018
• The Incredible Life of Antoine Köpe - Ottoman History podcast with Nefin Dinç, October 2018
• Local Capitalists in the Late Ottoman Levant - Ottoman History Podcast with Kristen Alff, 3 December 2019
• Ottomans, Orientalists, and 19th-Century Visual Culture - Ottoman History Podcast with Mary Roberts, 19 January 2020
• Mementos from Habsburg Life in Ottoman Istanbul - Ottoman History Podcast with Robyn Dora Radway, 5 July 2020
• Travel Images Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire - Ottoman History Podcast with Elisabeth Fraser, 25 August 2020
• Italian Empire and the Dodecanese - Ottoman History Podcast with Valerie McGuire, 13 September 2020

Video Presentations - those more recent:

• Some of them say Levanten to them by Ragıp Taranç and Gülnaz Saraçoğlu and Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer, 2005
• Levant’ın Aynasında Batılı Yansımalar [Western reflection in the mirror of the Levant] Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer, Ege University communications faculty, radio-TV-cinema section, 2005
• Between European and Ottoman: Turn of the 18th Century, Karen Leal, 2010
• Achielleas Chatziconstantinou giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on the 3rd November, 2010 on the subject: ‘The image of the Levantine as Portrayed in the late 19^th Century Travel Guides’.
• George Poulimenos giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘Captain Miniotis’s Memoirs’, on the 3rd November 2010.
• Eda Kaçar Özmutaf giving her speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘A United Family from Three Roots: Belfante, Catoni and Beard’, on the 3rd November 2010.
• Willem Daniels giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on 3rd November 2010, entitled ‘The Vicissitudes of an expat family: The De Jonghs, 1812-1954’ - 3 November 2010.
• Dr Emre Aracı lecture on “The Ottoman Waltz: Tracing the history of the Turkish court’s passion for the music of Europe”, 22nd March 2011.
• Philip Mansel lecture on “What is a Levantine City? From Smyrna to Izmir”, based on his latest book, 4th May 2011.
• Video documentary info for Croatian TV, on the “Croatians on the Bosphorus”, Srdan Segaric, 2011
• The Italians of Egypt - Documentary, 80 minutes. Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem, 2011 - trailer
• That Alexandria - Documentary, 77 minutes. Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem, 2014 - trailer
• Levantine Cosmopolitanism, Myth and Reality -Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University)
• Groppi: From Switzerland to Egypt, Swiss TV documentary, 2009 - trailer
• Smyrna quay 1905 project & A Lexicon Of Smyrneika by George Vassiadis, George Poulimenos and George Galdies, 8 February 2013.
• Sir Alfred Biliotti and the end of Ottoman Crete, 1885–1899 by David Barchard, (BIAA) 2016
• Maltese Community of Izmir - Television Malta, February 2016
• In Diverso Stat Humanitas - Doğunun Italyanları [Italians of the East], Berna Aydın, 2016
• Gli Ulimi Levantini - Italiani all’ombra del sultano [The Last Levantines - Italians in the shadow of the Sultan] - Ilario Piagnerelli, Rai, 2017
• The Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Ottoman Empire to France 1600-1800, Nelly Hanna, Eric Tagliacozzo and Aziz Rana - The Middle East, the Academy, and the Production of Knowledge, 2017
• Aliotti Family album Fernand tells his story (1898-1996), 25 April 2020
• Giovanni Scognamillo – Görsel Hafıza Projesi, (filmed 2005, published 2020)
• İzmir’in son Levantenleri: “Ne et ne balık, arada bir kişiyim” [The last Levantines of Izmir : “Neither meat nor fish, I am somebody in the middle”] - +90 (Deutsche Welle, VOA Türkçe, BBC Türkçe & France 24), 22-12-2020

Blogs

• İzmir ve Levanten dünya [Izmir and the Levantine world] - A blog site summarising Daniel Goffman’s book.
• ‘Following Miss Gertrude Bell’ treck 2015, Pat Yale.
• S. Harlow: An American chaplain in Smyrna; the history behind the NATO base.
• Economic History Blog
• Old postcards from the Levant etc. (in German)
• Noisybrain: Jim Scobie’s selfieblog
• From Lancs to the Levant

News articles:

• Izmir’s Past Revisited through the Old Bornova Houses - Denise Braggiotti, Turkish Daily News, 1 August 1999
• Turco-British relations in all dimensions Turkish Daily News, 21 July 2001
• İki şehrin levantenleri [Levantines of two cities] - Sibel Arna - Hürriyet 12 July 2003 - translation
• Eddie geçmişini İstanbul’da arıyor [Eddie is searching for his past in Istanbul] - Aslı Ulusoy Pannuti - Hürriyet 24/1/2004 - translation
• Hatıra defteri sahibini buldu [The diary has found its owner] - Tuba Akyol - Milliyet 12/5/2004
• Geçmişten Günümüze Esintiler: Milas Levanten Evleri [Traces of the past today: The Levantine houses of Milas] - Nevzat Çağlar Tüfekçi (Press and public relations officer of the council of Milas) - Bodrum haber 26/10/2004 - translation & photos
• Kiliseler ve İzmir [The Churches and Izmir] - Sabri Yetkin (vice deacon of the history department in the 9^th September University in Izmir) - Milliyet 19/12/2004
• “Ben İzmirliyim” [I am an Izmirian - Mario Sponza interview] - Yeni Asır 25-1-2005.
• O şimdi emekli [He, Hendrich Dutilh, is now retired] - Milliyet 9/8/2005
• Bornova’daki Maltass evini restore edip ailesiyle taşındı - Kocaoğlu’na tarihi ev [Izmir Municipal head, Aziz Kocaoğlu restored the historic Maltass house in Bornova, and has moved in with his family] - Yeni Asır, 20 August 2005
• Bazıları; onlara Levanten diyor [Some call them Levantines] - Sabah, 2-10-2005 [contains some incorrect assertions]
• Arkaslar bu yıl da ailece rekortmen [The Arcas family are again top tax payers of Izmir this year (2006), Lucien Arcas the highest, his son Bernard 6th, and daughter Claire 7th] - Milliyet 4 April 2007
• Gizli Aristokrasi [Secret Aristocracy] - an article on 3 Levantine families of Izmir, Whittall, Giraud, Aliberti - Marie Claire, September 2010
• Fotoğraflarla Levanten İzleri [Traces of Levantines through photographs] - Milliyet 15 December 2010
• Maltese Survivors of Smyrna, Henry Frendo - The Malta Historical Society, 2010.
• Izmir Municipality, postulated future projects some supported by Unesco, breakdown - summary - a personal view by Alex Baltazzi:
• Levantine businessman boasts world’s most extensive Ottoman postcard collection - Fatih Vural - Turkish News, 30 October 2011
• Benim Levanten’im: Stanley Clarke [My Levantine: Stanley Clarke] - Yaşar Aksoy - Hürriyet, 12-2-2012
• Turkey: Catching Up with the Last of the Levantines - Rena Effendi, Eurasianet.org, 20 April 2012
• Bavuldan çıkan unutulmus mimar [The forgotten architect to emerge from a suitcase - the files of De Nari] - Radikal, 23-3-2013
• The Amateur Levantine Theatre: New generation Levantines continue their ancestors’ tradition - Izmir magazine, issue 21, March-April 2013 - flyers and group photos
• Levantine culture to open to tourism in Aegean - Hürriyet Daily News, 23-7-2013
• İzmir’e demiryolunu ve ışığı getiren İskoçlar [The Scots who brought the railways and lighting to Izmir] - Sabah Pazar, 9-2-2014
• An Exotic Community in the Ottoman Empire: The Levantines - Daily Sabah, 28-3-2014
• Les Derniers Levantins de Turquie - Le Petit Journal, 28-1-2015
• Vivre-ensemble : le modèle « levantin » [Living together: the Levantine model] - Alexandre De Grauwe-Joignon, Aujourd’hui la Turquie, 11-2-2015
• Casa Garibaldi, una storia levantina - LaStampa.it, 28 September 2015
• İzmir’in saklı tarihinin peşinde [In search of the hidden history of Izmir - the research of Andrew Simes] - Tolga Albay, Hürriyet, 23-2-2016
• Interview: Despina Vlami on ‘trading with the Ottomans’, William Armstrong, Hürriyet, 23-4-2016
• The Levantines: Refugees who preferred the East instead of the West - Gila Benmayor, Hürriyet Daily News, 27 September 2016
• İstanbul’da bir İtalyan [An Italian in Istanbul: Miguel Selvelli] - Reportare, Sinan Dirlik, 2-10-2016
• Beyoğlu’nda Levantenler nasıl buharlaştı? [How did the Levantines of Pera fade away?] - Sanatatak, Korhan Gümüş, 3-10-2016
• Beyoğlu’nda bir garip mülkiyet davası [A strange inheritence case in Beyoğlu] - Hürriyet, 30 November 2016
• The Consulate of Malta in Istanbul organizes a get-together for the small Maltese Community in Izmir - Foreignaffairs.gov.mt, 22 February 2017
• Gaziemir’de Tarihi Botanik Bahçesi [The historical botanical garden in Gaziemir] - Akad Haber, 13 April 2017
• Boğaziçi’nin İtalyan mimarları [Italian architects of the Bosphorus] - Şerif Yenen, Hürriyet, 22 May 2017
• Loren Edizel’le Söyleşi: Smyrna’nın İzinde Bir Romancı [Interview with Loren Edizel: A novelist in search of old Smyrna] - Altuğ Akın, İzmir Akdeniz Akademisi Dergisi, No. 1, Yaz 2017
• Ship in a Bottle - Hürriyet Daily News, Aylin Öney Tan, 8 January 2018
• Football passion: Introduced by foreigners became a national pride - Erhan Afyoncu, Daily Sabah, 1 April 2018
• One of Turkey’s Germans: Portrait of the Orientalist Friedrich Schrader - Ceyda Nurtsch, Qantara.de, 22-6-2018
• Les Levantins, vestiges chrétiens de l’Empire ottoman - Mélinée Le Priol, La Croix, 30-8-2018
• How an Ottoman diplomat captured Levantine ‘glitterati’ in caricatures - Giuseppe Mancini, Al-Monitor, 8 January 2019 - images:
• Türkiye’nin son Levantenleri kültürlerini yaşatmaya çalışıyor [The last Levantines of Turkey work to keep their culture alive] - Öncü Şehir, 23-1-2019
• Last Levantines of Turkey working to keep their culture alive - Daily Sabah, 28-1-2019
• Istanbul’s Italian heritage: a legacy of the cosmopolitan past - Jane Akatay, The Guide Istanbul, 22 April 2019
• 1885-1920 yıllarındaki Adalar bu sergide [The Prince’s Islands between 1885-1920 is in this exhibition] - Sözcü, 22 September 2019
• İstanbul’da Bir Fotoğraf Stüdyosunun Hikayesi [The Story of a Photographic Studio in Istanbul], Fabrizio Casaretto - Adalı, 3 October 2019
• Why Picasso continues to inspire Levant, Nazlan Ertan - Al-Monitor, 3 November 2019
• Des Français en Turquie, l’histoire de famille d’une Renaisonnaise - L’aventure par l’écrit, 5 December 2019
• Did You Know? … This Ground-Breaking Turkish Sportsman lived in Tarrytown, Gareth Winrow - River Journal, 10 February 2020
• ‘İzmir Levantenleri’ sergisi APİKAM’da açıldı - Birgün, 11-2-2020
• The Scars of Ottoman San Stefano: Traces of a Contested Past in Istanbul’s Yeşilköy, Gabriel Doyle - Ajam Media Collective, 7 March 2020
• Napolyon’un generali: Kont Louis Michel Pac [The general of Napoleon: Count Louis Michel Pac] - Bedri Cumhur Doğu, 11-5-2020
• Smyrna: The Essence of my Spirit, Greg Vickas, 1-9-2020
• Forbes Köşkü “Levanten Kültür Merkezi” Olur Mu? [Could the Forbes Mansion be a “Levantine Cultural Centre”?], Saadet Erciyes - Kent Yaşam, 1-9-2020 (on paper 17-9-2020)
• Vatikan arşivlerinde bir Türk [A Turk in the Vatican archives], Fatih Çekirge - Hürriyet, 13-9-2020