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The Imperial Gate (Bâb-ı Hümâyûn), leading to the outermost courtyard of Topkapi Palace, was known as the Sublime Porte until the 18th century.

The later Sublime Porte proper in 2006

Crowd gathering in front of the Porte's buildings shortly after hearing about the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte) inside.

The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte (Ottoman Turkish: باب عالی, romanized: Bāb-ı Ālī or Babıali, from Arabic: باب, romanized: bāb, lit. 'gate' and عالي, alī, lit. 'high'), was a synecdoche or metaphor used to refer collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.