This collection of articles follows up two previous volumes of selected works by Ottoman historian Evangelia Balta published in the Analecta Isisiana series. The present volume first offers a revisit of her in-depth studies of the Karamanlis, the Turcophone Rum people native to Karamania, the wider Cappadocia region of Anatolia. The second part of the book presents selected articles discussing the Karamanlidika Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, covering both published and unpublished material in Turkish printed in Greek characters. The articles are based on painstaking research in the Ottoman archives and present formerly unknown material. One of the objectives of Balta’s research has been to illuminate the relationship between the Ottoman, Armeno-Turkish and Karamanlidika literatures by acquiring an overview of the publications available in all of these scripts and the translations from one script to another. As suggested by the title, through this work she seeks to go beyond the language frontiers in order to shed new light on Ottoman history. The articles are written in English and French.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 8)
• PREFACE (page 11)
• PART I: TURKISH-SPEAKING ORTHODOX ANATOLIANS (page 15)
• LES CODICES KARAMANLIS ET TURCS DU CENTRE D'ETUDES D'ASIE MINEURE (page 17)
• ANNEXE: TEMOIGNAGE EXTRAIT DU CODEX 419 (SYLATA) (page 41)
• THE ADVENTURES OF AN IDENTITY IN THE TRIPTYCH: VATAN, RELIGION AND LANGUAGE (page 51)
• TURKISH-SPEAKING ANATOLIAN RUMS AND THE KARAMANLIDIKA BOOK PRODUCTION (page 69)
• CRIES AND WHISPERS IN KARAMANLIDIKA BOOKS BEFORE THE DOOM OF SILENCE* (page 83)
• ANNEXE: RAPPORT SUR UNE MISSION EN EUBEE (2-11 aout 1956) (page 95)
• PART II: KARAMANLIDIKA PRESS (page 107)
• KARAMANLIDIKA PRESS (Smyrna 1845-Athens 1926) (page 109)
• CATALOGUE OF THE KARAMANLIDIKA PRESS (page 125)
• APPENDIX (page 132)
• LA REVUE KARAMANLIE AKTIS [= LE RAYON LUMINEUX] REVUE PERIODIQUE HEBDOMADAIRE TRAITANT DE SUJETS RELIGIEUX, POLITIQUES ET SCIENTIFIQUES* (page 137)
• LA REVUE KARAMANLIE I ARETI (FAZILET) (page 147)
• ANNEXE (page 153)
• LE JOURNAL KARAMANLI <> D'EVANGELINOS MISAILIDIS DANS LA TOURMENTE DU SCHISME BULGARE (page 155)
• ANNEXE (page 174)
• PART III: OTTOMAN EVIDENCE ON KARAMANLIDIKA EDITIONS (page 179)
• OTTOMAN EVIDENCE ABOUT THE GREEK AND KARAMANLI EDITIONS OF EVANGELINOS MISAILIDIS (page 181)
• ANNEXE (page 194)
• KARAMANLIIDIKA EDITIONS ON CHOLERA YEARS 1848-1854 (page 195)
• APPENDIX (page 206)
• BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES ON KARAMANLIDIKA PUBLICATIONS (page 209)
• APPENDIX (page 217)
• INDEX (page 219)