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The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte (Ottoman Turkish: باب عالی, romanized: Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali; Turkish pronunciation: [baːbɯˈaːliː]), was a synecdoche or metaphor used to refer collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople.