Nicolas Vatin is a French epigrapher and historian, specializing in the study of the Ottoman Empire. His brother, François Vatin, is a professor of sociology at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défenser.
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After studying at the École normale supérieure, Vatin obtained his agrégation de lettres classiques in 1978[citation needed]. Between 1981 and 1983, Vatin was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul[citation needed]. As of 2016, Vatin is the director of research at the CNRS and director of studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.[citation needed].
Vatin's main research topics are the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-16th centuries, the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, the succession of Ottoman sultans and cemeteries and death with translations and analysis of the Ottoman chronicles.
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In 2015, he published a Dictionnaire de l'empire Ottoman XVe-XVIes with François Georgeon and Gilles Veinstein.