Porte Definition

Porte Sentence Examples

• The successful defence of Varna and Silistria seemed to justify the stubbornness of the Porte.

• In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.

• In October 1704 the "Cinque Porte" returned and found two of these men, the others having been apparently captured by the French.

• About 1760 a Moslem chieftain, Mehemet of Bushat, after obtaining the pashalik of Scutari from the Porte, succeeded in establishing an almost independent sovereignty in Upper Albania, which remained hereditary in his family for some generations.

• Jerusalem is the chief town of a sanjak, governed by a mutessarif, who reports directly to the Porte.