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Sign in to savethumb|Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
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thumb|Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
A divan or diwan (, dīvān; from Sumerian dub, clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see dewan).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “divan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.