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 The publication of historical documents and records and their interpretation are of special interest.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:

- J. C. Alexander: Conquest and Assimilation: Urban and Rural Real Estate in the Town of Tripolitsa, 1698-1716
- A. Anastasopoulos: In Preparation for the Hajj: the Will of a Serdengeçti from Crete (1782)
- M. Balivet: Byzantinoturcica: quelques remarques sur un creuset culturel
- V. Dimitriadis: The Esnaf System and Professions in Nineteenth-Century Thessaloniki
- D. Janos: Panaiotis Nicousios and Alexander Mavrocordatos: the Rise of the Phanariots and the Office of Grand Dragoman in the Ottoman Administration in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
- P. P. Kotzageorgis: “Messiahs” and Neomartyrs in Ottoman Thessaly: Some Thoughts on two Entries in a Mühimme Defteri