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The Sublime Porte , also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte (" Bb -  l " or " Babali ", from , " bb " " gate " and , " al " " high "), is a synecdochic metonym for the central government of the ___MASK21___ . The naming has its origins in the old Oriental practice , according to 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 adopted also by Ottoman Turk sultans since Orhan I , and therefore the palace of the sultan , or the gate leading to it , became known as the " High Gate ". This name referred first to a palace in Brussa . After Ottomans had conquered Constantinople , now Istanbul , the gate now known as the Imperial Gate ( leading to the outermost courtyard of the Topkap Palace , became at first known as the " High Gate ", or the " Sublime Porte ". Koca Sinan Pasha ( Albanian : Sinan Pasha Topojani ; 1506 -- 3 April 1596 ) was an Ottoman grand vizier , Ottoman military figure , and statesman . From 1580 till his death he served five times as Grand Vizier . The Topkap Palace ( or in , " opapu Sary ") or the Seraglio is a large palace in Istanbul , ___MASK64___ that was one of the major residences of the Ottoman sultans for almost 400 years ( 1465  1856 ) of their 624 - year reign . The ___MASK21___ ('; Modern Turkish : ' or '), also known as the Turkish Empire , Ottoman Turkey , was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman . After 1354 , the Ottomans crossed into Europe , and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire . The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror . A vizier ( rarely ; In modern usage , the term has been used for ministers in the ___MASK38___ world , ___MASK33___ , Turkey , East Africa ( ___MASK83___ , Tanzania and Somalia ) ___MASK51___ , Pakistan , India , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan . In the ___MASK21___ , the Grand Vizier was the prime minister of the Ottoman sultan , with absolute power of attorney and , in principle , dismissible only by the sultan himself . He held the imperial seal and could convene all other viziers to attend to affairs of the state ; the viziers in conference were called "" Kubbealt " viziers " in reference to their meeting place , the " Kubbealt " (' under the dome ') in Topkap Palace . His offices were located at the Sublime Porte .