Paul Rycaut

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Author of The Present State of the Ottoman Empire….

Last updated by Phil Gyford on 14 October 2009

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• - Terry Foreman on Fri 16 Oct 2009, 01:09am. Flag this

  Rycaut, Paul (1628–1700), traveller and author. He was secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople and then consul to the Levant Company at Smyrna. His essay on The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches (1679) remains an important source of information.
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• - Terry Foreman on Sat 2 Apr 2011, 10:53pm. Flag this

  Sir Paul Rycaut FRS (23 December 1629 London - 16 November 1700 Hamburg) was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rycaut

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