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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.359, cont.)

neighbouring khans and the Russians. (See also below; the king had forced the Vhanatp. of Revan to pay tribute to him and negotiated an alliance with Russia in 1783; as a result the Muslim tribes in the north Caucasus, encouraged by the Porte, began making incursions against Russia which led to the Russo-Ottoman War of 1787-92; east Georgia was annexed by the Russians in 1801, cf. Boumoutian’s study, pp. 7 ff.) f. 32a. A part of a note emphasizing the duty of all officials involved to respect the legal rules as laid down in the respective documents (vakfiyes) regarding the orderly administration of pious endowments (evkaf) in the Ottoman Empire. f. 32b. ‘Articles’ [in a letter] sent to the Russian ambassador and plenipotentiary, General [Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich] Repnin [1734-1801], in preparation for the miibadele (exchange) ceremonies to take place at the border between the Russian and Ottoman amabassadors (on 13 July 1775, cf. Itzkowitz and Mote’s work, p. 68-77, 128, passim). These are an urgent recommendation to hold the ceremony at Hotin (Chotin) and concern the protocol to be followed during the meeting of the ambasadors at that border town, as well as the coaches and the house to be provided at Hotin for the Russian ambassador. f. 33a. A letter by the ka’im-makam pasha to Field-Marchal Coburg at Bucarest in positive response to the latter’s request to the, by now late, Grand Vizier GazT Hasan Pa§a [who died on the night of 13-14 Receb 1204/29-30 March 1790], to hold the coming peace talks in Bucarest instead of in Ruscuk. f. 33b. A report (telhfs) to the Sultan informing him of the extortionate practices of Vizier Ahmed Pa§a, formerly dismissed from the post of Adana, still holding the malikdne sancak of Kangm (Cankiri) where he, contary to the respective ferm&n, is levying 72 instead of the legal 40 para on every bushel (kfle) of grain and causes the poor to flee to the mountains; disciplinary measures should be taken; in a superscript, the sultan urges his vizier to act upon the proposal of the report. ff. 33b-34b. A hiikiim addressed to el-Hacc ‘AIT Pa§a, vali of Erzurum and Trabzon, ser'asker at the Crimea [d. 1199/1785, cf. SO 2 1, p. 286], appointing him and the kapudan-i derya Vizier Hasan Pa§a [GazT Hasan Pa§a, kapudan 1184/1770-1199/1785. cf. SC^II.pp. 638-9] plenipotentiaries at the coming peace negotations with Russia.