Hi Chris, I think the data you are looking for about administrative boundaries of the ottoman Empire doesn’t exist. I have only a file (under illustrator) of the boundaries in 1867 based on a Kiepert map, that is to say after 1864, date of a large administrative reform of the provincial boundaries. Best Jean-Luc Arnaud Directeur de recherches au CNRS Fondateur et responsable de CartoMundi MMSH - 5, rue du Château de l'Horloge, 13 100 Aix-en-Provence Mail : [log in to unmask] - tél.: 04 42 52 40 47 En savoir plus : http://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/membres/Jean-Luc_Arnaud Pour CartoMundi : http://cartomundi.eu ________________________________________ De : Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [[log in to unmask]] de la part de Christopher Winters [[log in to unmask]] Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2015 21:18 À : [log in to unmask] Objet : Re: GIS files with Ottoman boundaries in the Balkans No, sorry, Rixanne. We did end up buying some of the Euratlas files, but they don't go very far east/southeast, and--well, I probably shouldn't say this on MAPS-L, but I will--the graduate student who's researching Ottoman Eastern Europe isn't sure that the Euratlas files are completely accurate (it's not clear that there's an unambiguously definitive source of correct information here). Chris Winters University of Chicago Library ________________________________________ From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Rixanne Wehren [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: GIS files with Ottoman boundaries in the Balkans Hello, Did you find this? I’m interested too, mostly just for curiosity. thanks, Rixanne On Oct 25, 2014, at 6:00 AM, Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi, I'd be very grateful to hear if anyone knows of a source of free or inexpensive GIS files with Ottoman boundaries (including first- and second-order internal administrative boundaries) in the Balkans between roughly 1600 and 1914. I'm guess I'm hoping (fantasizing?) to learn of an institution or group comparable to the Ancient World Mapping Center that's concentrated on the Ottoman Empire. Yes, I know of Euratlas, but we can't afford it! Many thanks for any help you can provide. Best, Chris Winters Map Collection University of Chicago Library