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Sublime (also Ottoman) Porte
In full Sublime (also Ottoman) Porte. The court or palace of the Ottoman sultan at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). Hence: the Ottoman government.In quot. c1440, perhaps used metonymically for ‘Constantinople’ or ‘the Turkish empire’.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > the Turkish government
Portec1440
the gate of the great Turk1572
to come a gate?a1600
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2609 (MED) In all þe price cetees that to þe porte langes, I sall hafe trewly the tresour and the londes.
1600 R. Churche tr. M. Fumée Hist. Hungary 248 Send your Ambassadours, as well towards our royall Port, as also to him.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 89 He that had bin Ambassadour at the Port to the greatest Monark upon earth.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1145/1 Articles of Peace concluded between the King of Poland and the Ottoman Port.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) The Port, the Court of the Grand Seignior..at Constantinople.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 350/2 Report of which being made to the sublime Porte, the sultan advanced him to the post of Cadi.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 78/2 That haughty capital, which had been named the Porte by way of eminence, from its incomparable naval and commercial situation.
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia 210 A better understanding was in consequence soon established between him [sc. Napoleon] and the Porte.
1886 Queen's Speech in opening Parl. 21 Jan. in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 33/1 Under a Convention..concluded with the Ottoman Porte, Commissioners have been appointed, on behalf of England and Turkey to confer with His Highness the Khedive.
1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 470 The Sublime Porte is a time-honoured institution.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 659/2 He earned the confidence of the Porte by the cruel discipline he maintained in his own sanjak.
1984 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. ii. 33/1 In 1799, Lord Elgin was appointed Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, the Turkish Sultan, in Constantinople.
2001 M. Sicker Islamic World in Decline 2 At the Sublime Porte, the grand vizir Sokullu Mehmed argued strenuously against another Persian war but was overridden by the sultan.
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