Ottoman history

Dear Mary,

This sounds as though this would have been the Imperial ambassador, i.e. the representative of the Holy Roman Emperor (in other words, the Austrian Habsburg ambassador). In Latin, the Emperor was referred to as Caesar so the term you used would have been derived from this.  Imperial ambassador would be the more common way of referring to these people in English nowadays. Does your term come from a Latin or Italian source?

The best (if probably somewhat outdated and inaccurate) list of individuals who held this office in the seventeenth century is contained in

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Summer School: Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscripts

 3-8 September 2018, Ankara, Turkey

Final deadline: 5 May 2018

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