KONGRE BİLDİRİLERİ
travellers. Prince Luitpold even had an audience with Sultan Abdülmecid.4 Due to such unofficial
contacts at least part of the documents, letters and defters seem to have come to Munich.
In the first part of this paper I shall try to give a general survey of these records, pointing out
their types, their origin and contents. In the second part of the paper I shall deal with their fate, their
whereabouts, and their preservation. In the final part of my paper the pub