Archivum Ottomanicum concerns itself primarily with Ottoman history and Ottoman philology. However, the editors also welcome articles on subjects related to Ottoman studies in the history and culture of Europe, including in particular Danubian Europe, the Black Sea area and the Caucasus, and in the history and culture of the Arab and the Iranian lands, and Byzantium. The publication of historical documents and records and their interpretation are of special interest.

From the Contents:

- H. Inalcik: The Ottoman survey of Istanbul, 1455
- B. Köpeczi: Vie et activités de Joseph Rákóczi
- H. Aynur,:Rethinking the Türkî-i Basit movement in Turkish literature
- Y. Kurt: Onomastic study of the names employed in Sarajevo at the beginning of the 17th century
- M. Sariyannis: Ottoman critics of society and state, fifteenth to early eighteenth centuries: toward a corpus for the study of Ottoman political thought
- B. Tezcan: The question of regency in Ottoman dynasty: the case of the early reign of Ahmed I
- M. N. Kutlu: Ottoman subjects in Latin America: an archive document and some reflections on the probable causes of their immigration