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(now historical) The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire. quotations
Another odd Combination: 'tis now confidently asserted that the Ottoman Porte enters into a League offensive & defensive with France […] .
1793 February 20, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana
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.
1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 24
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.
2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 19