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Visit the project’s website<\/a><\/p>\n This website offers access to the diplomatic reports of Ottoman envoys in Belgium (1849\u20131914). They are made available here for the first time in high-quality photographic reproduction, together with key information on every dispatch (author, recipient, date, summary).<\/p>\n The project has two objectives: to stimulate new research into Ottoman diplomacy, and to encourage revisionist histories of Belgium that engage with Ottoman sources.<\/p>\n Ottoman Diplomats is a digitisation project initiated by Power in History: Centre for Political History<\/a> at the University of Antwerp (UA). This project grew out of a research seminar entitled A Glance at the \u2019West\u2019? Ottoman Diplomats to Belgium (1849\u20131914)<\/em>, and builds on the students’ collective work. Financial aid was provided by the University of Antwerp<\/a> and the FWO Research Foundation \u2013 Flanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This website offers access to the diplomatic reports of Ottoman envoys in Belgium (1849\u20131914). They are made available here for the first time in high-quality photographic reproduction, together with key information on every dispatch (author, recipient, date, summary). The project has two objectives: to stimulate new research into Ottoman diplomacy, and to encourage revisionist histories of Belgium that engage with Ottoman sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640,"parent":671,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-782","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions\/820"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Project Description<\/h2>\n