Welcome to the ONiT Project!
This interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project analyzes Ottoman “nature” in travelogues on the Ottoman empire, printed between 1501 and 1850.
The leading questions are what role representations of nature played in the reports, whether and, if so, why differences occurred in diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and how the texts and images related to each other. This analysis aims to shed new light on transnational environmental and natural history.
Thrilled to announce that you can now search over 22,000 of our images.
We are proud to announce that our bibliography of travelogues in Ottoman, Arabic, and Persian languages is openly accessible via Zotero.
The Digital Humanities Team at the University of Vienna and the Ottoman Nature in Travelogues (ONiT) project are pleased to announce a hackathon dedicated to exploring current challenges and solutions related to the analysis of texts, images, and multimodal sources.