Ottoman records are densest where its administration was most direct.

Evidence

It is of course for this subject that the Ottoman archives offer the richest resources. I have dealt elsewhere at some length with the value of the archives as a source for the history of the Asian provinces of the Empire, and will not repeat what I said there. Most of it applies with even greater force to the European provinces, in which Ottoman administration was more direct and effective, and the records therefore more detailed and extensive. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1990

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ottoman records were stored where their creators worked
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ottoman records were stored where their creators worked