The State Archives of Bari ( it, Archivio di Stato di Bari) is the repository of documents and archives of

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in the city of

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

, Italy. It was established as a provincial

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on 22 October 1812, as a result of the

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and the subsequent organic law of 1818 on the Archives of the Kingdom. Originally located at the Ospedale degli Svizzeri, in 1831 it was moved to the Palazzo dell'Intendenza. For two years in 1936–37, it was housed at the Palazzo della Provincia. Since 2007, the archive, together with the , has been housed at the Cittadella della Cultura. This complex was originally built in the early 20th century as a

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and municipal

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. The Scuola Statale di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica has been in operation since 1974, and it carries out training tasks for the technical and scientific staff of the archives' administration. It is also open to external students who hold a secondary school diploma.

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