Bab-ı Âli
The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte ( or ''Babıali''; ), was a synecdoche or metaphor used to refer collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul. It is particularly referred to the building which housed the office of the List of Ottoman grand viziers, Grand Vizier, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ottoman Empire), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Empire), Ministry of the Interior, and the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances. Today it houses the Istanbul Governor's Office, office of the Istanbul governerate. History The name has its origins in the old practice in which the ruler announced his official decisions and judgements at the gate of his palace. This was the practice in the Byzantine Empire and it was also adopted by Ottoman Turks, Ottoman Turk sultans since Orhan I. The palace of the sultan, or the gate leading to it, therefore became known as the "High Gate". This name referred first to ...
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Synecdoche
Synecdoche ( ) is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole (''pars pro toto''), or vice versa (''totum pro parte''). The term is derived . Common English synecdoches include ''suits'' for ''businessmen'', ''wheels'' for ''automobile'', and ''boots'' for ''soldiers''. Definition Synecdoche is a rhetorical Trope (literature), trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing.Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
University of Kentucky Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor,Figurative Language- language ...
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