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Consulate

United States Legation, Constantinople

Constantinople, OTTOMAN · founded 1831

Consulate in Constantinople, founded 1831; part of US Department of State. 10 people in the register connected with it.

History

  1. c. 1865
    Mustafa Fefsi affair: Ottoman police at Larnaca seize the cavass of the US consul Cesnola. Cesnola travels to Constantinople and lays the case before the US Minister, E. J. Morris, who by Cesnola's account backs him, accepts a mixed commission under Augustus J. Johnson (US Consul-General at Beirut), and sends an ultimatum to the Porte while two US warships lie in Larnaca Bay. Satisfaction listed by Cesnola: dismissal of the Larnaca governor, restitution of Fefsi, a 21-gun salute, 10,000 piastres damages to the US dragoman, an apology from the Governor-General. Cesnola's account only; the year is not given on the pages read.

    LarnacaEdward Joy MorrisLuigi Palma di CesnolaCesnola 1878

  2. 1865–1870
    Cesnola says that after surveying Dali he addressed himself to Minister Morris, who used his influence with the Porte and had the digging firman renewed each year while he remained at Constantinople.

    IdalionEdward Joy MorrisLuigi Palma di CesnolaCesnola 1878Marangou 2000, p. 185

  3. 1873–1875
    After Cesnola's return from the United States (1873) the Turks were more hostile and he had trouble obtaining a new firman. By his own letter he agreed with the American Minister Boker to give many duplicates to the Constantinople museum as a gift. The Porte instead sent Dr Dethier to Larnaca with a letter that made it a requisition; Cesnola refused, informed the Legation, then let Dethier take 88 boxes. Boker, 'furious', confiscated the boxes at Constantinople and agreed to return them only against an official letter of gratitude from the Porte and a renewed firman. The letter came; the firman, Cesnola says, never did, and a 'Turkish solution' followed. Cesnola's version only.

    LarnacaGeorge Henry BokerPhilipp DethierLuigi Palma di CesnolaMarangou 2000, p. 135-136Cesnola 1878

  4. 1875
    Cesnola tells Baraezi, second dragoman of the Legation and an interested intermediary for a sale of the collection (letter of 1 December 1875), that Boker thinks highly of him, and offers a 5% commission on a sale.

    ConstantinopleBaraeziLuigi Palma di CesnolaGeorge Henry BokerMarangou 2000, p. 255

  5. 22 April 1875
    Boker invites Cesnola to contact the Marquis de Vogue, the French ambassador (letter of 22 April 1875, as reported by Bonato).

    ConstantinopleGeorge Henry BokerLuigi Palma di CesnolaTatton-Brown 2001, p. 194

  6. 1878
    In the preface to Cyprus: its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples Cesnola thanks the Legation in the persons of Morris, McVeah, Boker and John H. Goodenow for official support.

    ConstantinopleEdward Joy MorrisGeorge Henry BokerJohn H. GoodenowMarangou 2000, p. 272

People

10 people

Staff and members · 10

Sources

  1. 1.L. P. di Cesnola (1878). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples.
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  3. 3.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  4. 4.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  5. 5.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  6. 6.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  7. 7.“United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire”. Wikipedia (English). Wikimedia Foundation. Online
  8. 8.“Edward Joy Morris”. Wikipedia. Online