Author(s): Cengiz ERGUN*
The 18th century was a politically crucial period for the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire. The Ottomans, who retreated from the lands they conquered in Europe in previous centuries due to the wars they lost against their arch-enemy Habsburg Empire, also had to cope with their internal problems.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Habsburg envoy Anselm Franz von Fleischmann, who undertook a diplomatic mission in the Ottoman lands between 1711 and 1716, reported the Turkish social life and political developments to Vienna in nearly 70 documents. The reports, as mentioned above, include Fleischmann's correspondence with foreign politicians and his letters. These correspondences and reports can be a research topic for Digital History studies, a branch of Digital Humanities. It is possible to work on these documents with visualization tools in this context.
"Palladio" is a web-based platform that allows Humanities scholars to upload data and explore it through various visualization types easily. It is a digital research tool explicitly designed for humanistic inquiry. This study includes adapting Anselm Franz von Fleischmann's reports to Palladio, which is a multi-layered visualization tool. In this way, it is aimed to process a subject in the field of Diplomatic History with Digital History tools.
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