Српска војска у османлијским штампаним и рукописним изворима (1881–1915)
The Serbian Army in the Ottoman Printed and Manuscript Sources, 1881-1915

Summary/Abstract: During the period 1881 to 1915, the Ottomans wrote and printed about 21 studies of the Army of the Principality/Kingdom of Serbia. Many of them can be found in libraries in Istanbul, with one in the Central Library of the Atatürk University in Erzurum. This kind of source contains the information and views of the Ottoman officers about Serbian military tactics, military reform movement and organization, dislocation of the units, and all similar military information which helped provide understanding of the development of a potential enemy. One of the sources was written by the Ottomans military attaché who was posted in Belgrade, while some of the sources were simply a translation from French or German. This paper endeavors to identify these sources’ location, their authors, and most importantly, which kind of source was used for writing a book or an article about the military capability of the Serbia. Many of these printed and manuscript sources seem to be little-known to writers, including Turkish historians, of Serbian military history.

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