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Législation ottomane
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Législation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, règlements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l'Empire ottoman is a collection of Ottoman law published by Gregory Aristarchis (as Grégoire Aristarchi) and edited by Demetrius Nicolaides (as Démétrius Nicolaïdes). The volumes were published from 1873 to 1888.
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The Législation Ottomane was one of the first collections of the Ottoman Law in seven volumes in French,[1][2] Aristarchis is named in most volumes, except for 6–7,[3] which, according to Strauss, "seem to have been edited solely by Demetrius Nicolaides".[4] The collection was intended for foreigners living in the empire, including employees of foreign ministries. Strauss described it as the "best-known example of" a collection of Ottoman laws.[3]
Volume 1 was published in 1873, Volumes 2–4 were published in 1874, Volume 5 was published in 1878, Volume 6 was published in 1881, and Volume VII was published in 1888.
This publication, along with the Greek version of the Ottoman Code of Public Laws (Düstur), enriched Nicolaides financially,[5] giving him money used to operate his newspapers. He advertised the translation in the supplements of his newspapers and personally.[6]