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Kapıcılar Kethüdası (aka Mir-i alem)

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Costumes Orientaux
Recueil de costumes et vêtements de l'Empire ottoman au 18e siècle
Collection of costumes and clothing of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century
Owned by Joseph Gabriel Monnier

Kapoudgilar Ketqudasi : commandant des quarante capoudgis bachis qui sont les grands officiers du sultan
commander of the forty capudgis bachis who are officers of the sultan

The Mir-i alem carried the Sultan's flag. The Kapıcılar Kethüdası (steward of the gatekeepers) was in charge of the Bab-ı Hümayun and Bab-ı's Selam (gates), he served standing in the Divan-ı Hümayun meetings. He established the connection between the Sultan and the Grand Vizier, to punish the criminals related to politics, and to collect the petitions of the people when the Sultan went out on the occasion of Friday and Eid prayers.
Source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü


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