Abbreviations
Common Abbreviations
| AD | Anno Domini |
| AH | Anno Hegirae |
| Ar. | Arabic |
| art. | article |
| c. | circa |
| cf. | compare |
| Ch. | Chapter |
| d. | date of death |
| doc. | document |
| docs. | documents |
| ed. | edition, editor, edited by |
| eds. | editors |
| fr. | frame |
| f. | folio |
| fd. | fonds |
| Fr. | French, Français, Fonds Français |
| Gk. | Greek |
| K | Karton (in Polish Archives) |
| Lat. | Latin |
| M. | Monsieur |
| MC | Microfilm Collection |
| mf. | microfilm |
| ms., MS | manuscript |
| mss., Mss. | manuscripts |
| n. | note |
| n.d. | no date |
| o.n. | our note |
| Or. | Oriental |
| p. | page |
| P. | Persian |
| pl. | plural |
| r. | recto |
| rl. | reel |
| Rom. | Romanian |
| sing. | singular |
| Supl. | Fr. Supplément, Rom. Supliment |
| Sl. | Slavic |
| Srs. | Seigneurs |
| St. | Saint, Sainct |
| t | teczka (small file in Polish archives) |
| Tk. | Turkish |
| v. | verso |
| Vol. | volume |
| Vols. | volumes |
Archives, Libraries, Collections, Institutions
| ACCM | Archives de la Chambre de Commerce de Marseille |
| AD | Arhiv u Dubrovniku (Archives in Dubrovnik) |
| ADBR | Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille |
| AGAD | Archiwum Glówne Akt Dawnych (The Archives of Old Documents). Warsaw |
| AIESÉE | Association Internationale d’Études du Sud-Est Européen |
| AKW-Tureckie | Archiwum Korone Warszawskie. Tureckie |
| AMAE | Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangèrs. Paris |
| AN | Archives Nationales (Paris) |
| ANR | Arhivele Naționale ale României (The National Archives of Romania). Bucharest |
| ASAn | Archivio di Stato di Ancona |
| ACAn | Archivio Comunale di Ancona |
| ASF | Archivio de Stato di Firenze |
| ASG | Archivio di Stato di Genoa |
| ASV | Archivio di Stato di Venezia |
| BAR | Biblioteca Academiei Române (Romanian Academy Library) Bucharest |
| BArsenal | Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal. Paris |
| BIF | Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France. Paris |
| BL | The British Library. London |
| BNE | Biblioteca Nacional de España. Madrid |
| BnF | Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Paris |
| BOA | Bașbakanlık Osmanlı Arșivi (Prime Minister’s Archives). Istanbul |
| DVN | Divan-ı Hümayun (Divan Beylikçi Kalemi) |
| DVE | Düvel-i Ecnebiye Defterleri (Ecnebi Devletler Defterleri) |
| ÉHÉSS | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Paris |
| ISSEE | Institute for South-East European Studies. Bucharest |
| IUK | Istanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi |
| LED | Lehistan Ahdnamesi Defteri |
| MD | Mühimme Defterleri |
| MDT | Miscellanea Documenti Turchi |
| MeD | Mémoires et documents |
| MOL | Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives). Budapest |
| MSH | Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Paris |
| NA | The National Archives (Great Britain) |
| NAD | Nemçelü Ahd Defteri |
| ÖStA/HHStA | Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv |
| SK | Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi (Süleymaniye Library). Istanbul |
| TKSMA | Topkapı Sarayi Muzesi Arșivi (Topkapı Palace Archives). Istanbul |
| TKSMK | Topkapı Sarayi Muzesi Kütüphanesi (Topkapı Palace Library). Istanbul |
| TTK | Türk Tarih Kurumu. Ankara |
| UUL | Uppsala University Library. Carolina Rediviva |
Periodicals, Collected Volumes
| AARMSI | Analele Academiei Române. Memoriile Secțiunii Istorice (Bucharest) |
| AAS | Asian and African Studies. Journal of the Israel Oriental Society (Haifa) |
| AAWG | Abhandlungen der Akademie Wissenschaften in Gottingen Philologish-Historische Klasse (Göttingen) |
| AEH | African Economic History (Wisconsin) |
| AFDI | Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul |
| AHDO | Archives d’Histoire du Droit Oriental (Brussels) |
| AHR | The American Historical Review |
| AHROS | Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies (Zaghouan, Tunisia) |
| AHY | Austrian History Yearbook (Rice University) |
| AI | Anale de Istorie (Bucharest) |
| AIESEE-B | Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen Bulletin (Bucharest) |
| AIIAI | Anuarul Institutului de Istorie și Arheologie «A.D.Xenopol» (Iași) |
| AIIC | Anuarul Institutului de Istorie (Cluj-Napoca) |
| AION | Annali dell’Instituto Orientale di Napoli (Naples) |
| AIPHOS | Annuaire de l’Institut de Philologie et d’Histoire Orientales et Slaves (Brussels) |
| AJIL | The American Journal of International Law (Washington) |
| AJSMLL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures (Chicago) |
| AKOG | Archiv für die Kunde Österreichischer Geschichtsquellen (Vienna) |
| Annales | Annales. Economies. Sociétés. Civilisations (Paris) |
| AO | Archiv Orientálni (Prague) |
| AOtt | Archiwum Ottomanicum (The Hague–Leiden) |
| AOASH | Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Budapest) |
| Arabica | Arabica. Revue d’études arabes (Paris) |
| AÜSBFD | Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi |
| Belgeler | Belgeler. Türk Tarih Belgeleri Dergisi (Ankara) |
| Belleten | Belleten. Türk Tarih Kurumu (Ankara) |
| BEO | Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales (Damascus) |
| BHR | Bulgarian Historical Review. Revue Bulgare d’Histoire (Sofia) |
| BOA.Rehberi | Bașbakanlık Osmanlı Arșivi Rehberi, Ankara, 1992 |
| BS | Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki) |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) |
| Bul. Com. Ist. | Buletinul Comisiei Istorice a României (Bucharest) |
| BÜD | Boğazıcı Üniversitesi Dergisi (Istanbul) |
| Byzantion | Byzantion. Revue internationale des études byzantines (Paris, Liège, Brussels) |
| BZ | Byzantinische Zeitschrift (Leipzig, Munich) |
| CCM | Cahiers de Civilisation Médievale (Poitiers) |
| CASS | Canadian-American Slavic Studies (Brill) |
| CICSEE | Cercetări de istorie și civilizație sud-est europeană (Bucharest) |
| CLSO | Caietele Laboratorului de Studii Otomane (Bucharest) |
| CM | Cahiers de la Méditerranée (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) |
| CMRS | Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique (Paris, Mouton, La Haye) |
| CMR | Cahiers du monde russe (Paris) |
| CSP | Calendar of State Papers |
| CSP Venice | Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice and in other Libraries of Northern Italy |
| CT | Les Cahiers de Tunisie. Revue de Sciences Humaines (Tunis) |
| DVL | Diplomatarium Veneto-Levantinum |
| DO | Dissertationes Orientales (Prague) |
| DRH | Documenta Romaniae Historica |
| DOP | Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Washington) |
| EB | Études Balkanique (Sofia) |
| EnglishHR | The English Historical Review (Oxford) |
| EHR | The Economic History Review (Wiley) |
| EI-1 | The Encyclopaedia of Islam, i–iv. First Edition. Edited by H.Th. Houtsma, R. Basset, T.W. Arnold, R. Hartmann, Leiden: Brill, 1913–1936 |
| EI-2 | The Encyclopaedia of Islam. i–xiii. New Edition. Edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs, Leiden: Brill, 1960 (1986)–2005 (some quotations are from the French edition L’Encyclopédie de l’Islam. Nouvelle édition, i–xiii, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005, where the pagination slightly differs) |
| EI-3 | The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Three. Edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Navas and Everett Rowson, Leiden. Boston: Brill, 2018 |
| ETR | Études Théologiques et Religieuses (Montpellier) |
| GOTR | The Greek Orthodox Theological Review (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| HES | Histoire, Économie et Société. Revue d’histoire économique et sociale (Paris) |
| Hurmuzaki | Documente privitoare la istoria românilor culese de Eudoxiu de Hurmuzaki |
| HUS | Harvard Ukrainian Studies |
| IA | Islam Ansiklopedisi, Istanbul: ISAM, Türk Diayanet Vakfı, 1988– |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies (London–New York) |
| IJMH | International Journal of Maritime History (SAGE Publications) |
| IJTS | International Journal of Turkish Studies (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| IQ | The Islamic Quarterly (London) |
| ITED | Islâm Tetkikleri Enstitüsü Dergisi. Review of the Institute of Islamic Studies (Istanbul) |
| JA | Journal Asiatique (Paris) |
| JAH | Journal of Asian History (Wiesbaden) |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society (Michigan) |
| JEH | The Journal of Economic History (Cambridge University Press) |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Leiden: Brill) |
| JEMH | Journal of Early Modern History (Leiden: Brill) |
| JHIL | Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international (Heidelberg) |
| JIL | Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford) |
| JMEMS | Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke University Press) |
| JMH | The Journal of Modern History (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) |
| JNES | Journal of Near-East Studies (Chicago) |
| JPHS | Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Karachi) |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) |
| JSAI | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (Jerusalem) |
| JTS.TBA | Journal of Turkish Studies. Türklük Bilgisi Araștırmaları (Harvard University) |
| MHR | Mediterranean Historical Review (London) |
| MOG | Mitteilungen zur Osmanischen Geschichte (Wien) |
| MOS | Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs (Wien) |
| NÉH | Nouvelles Études d’Histoire (Bucharest) |
| OA.JOS | Osmanlı Araștırmaları. The Journal of Ottoman Studies (Istanbul) |
| OBA | Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları (Istanbul University Press) |
| OCP | Orientalia Christiana Periodica (Rome) |
| OLP | Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica (Leuven) |
| OM | Oriente Moderno (Roma) |
| Oriens | Oriens. Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research (Brill) |
| POF | Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju. Contributions to Oriental Philology (Sarajevo) |
| PUF | Presses Universitaires de France |
| QSA | Quaderni di Studi Arabi (Rome) |
| RA | Revue Africaine. Journal des travaux de la Société historique algérienne (Alger, Paris) |
| RdC | Recueil des cours de l’Académie de Droit International de La Haye |
| RdI | Revista de Istorie (Bucharest) |
| REI | Revue des Études Islamiques (Paris) |
| REJ | Revue des études juives (Peeters) |
| RESEE | Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes (Bucharest) |
| RFHOM | Revue française d’histoire d’Outre-Mer (Paris) |
| RFR | Revista Fundațiile Regale (Bucharest) |
| RFSEUI | Revue de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques de l’Université d’Istanbul |
| RGDIP | Revue générale de droit international public (Paris) |
| RH | Revue historique (Paris) |
| RHD | Revue d’histoire diplomatique (Paris) |
| RHDFE | Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger (Paris) |
| RHM | Revue d’histoire maritime (Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses) |
| RHMC | Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (Nanterre) |
| RHSEE | Revue Historique des Études Sud-Est Européennes (Bucharest) |
| RIDC | Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé (Paris) |
| RMM | Revue du monde musulman (Paris) |
| RMMM | Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Mediterranée (Aix-en-Provence) |
| RO | Rocznik Orientalstyczny (Warsaw) |
| ROMM | Revue de l’Occident musulman et de la Mediterranée (Aix-en-Provence) |
| RQH | Revue des questions historiques (Paris) |
| RRH | Revue Roumaine d’Histoire (Bucharest) |
| RSO | Rivista di Studi Orientali (Roma) |
| SA | Studia Asiatica (Bucharest) |
| SAO | Studia et Acta Orientalia (Bucharest) |
| SEER | The Slavonic and East European Review (London) |
| SEHR | The Scandinavian Economic History Review |
| SF | Südost Forschungen (Munich) |
| SI | Studia Islamica (Paris) |
| SV | Studi Veneziani (Venice) |
| TAD | Türk Araștırmaları Dergisi (Ankara) |
| TED | Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi (Istanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi) |
| THR | Turkish Historical Review (Leiden: Brill) |
| TITA | Türkiye Iktisat Tarihi üzerine Araștırmaları (Ankara) |
| TM | Türkiyat Mecmuası (Istanbul) |
| TOEM | Tarih-i Osmanı Encümeni Mecmuası. Türk Tarih Encümeni Mecmuası (Istanbul) |
| TRHS | Transaction of the Royal Historical Society (London) |
| Turcica | Turcica. Revue des études turques (Paris, Louvain, Strasbourg) |
| TV | Tarih Vesikaları (Istanbul, Ankara) |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (Vienna) |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden) |