Porte

"Porte" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Another odd Combination: 'tis now confidently asserted that the Ottoman Porte enters into a League offensive & defensive with France […].

A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.

The Ottoman defenders in Edirne (ancient Adrianople, a city in modern Turkey near Greece and Bulgaria) were left surrounded and under siege when the Porte sued for an armistice in early December 1912.

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