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    Sir Paul Rycaut FRS (23 December 1629 – 16 November 1700) was an English diplomat and historian, and an authority on the Ottoman Empire. Rycaut's Huguenot...
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    visiting his friend Captain George Cocke, whose wife was from Danzig. Paul Rycaut was among the first to try to promote the duvet in England. Around 1700...
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    s. 31. Rycaut, Paul. "The Present State of the Ottoman Empire", p.20 Rycaut, Paul. "The Present State of the Ottoman Empire", p.37 Rycaut, Paul. "The Present...
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    1630. p. 198. Retrieved 2013-06-02. With a list of 'beglerbegatus'. Paul Rycaut (1670). The Present state of the Ottoman empire: Containing the Maxims...
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    preserved use of "Bosniak" in English was by English diplomat and historian Paul Rycaut in 1680 as Bosnack, cognate with post-classical Latin Bosniacus (1682...
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  • to Catholicism is corroborated by the contemporary English diplomat Paul Rycaut. In the 1940s, Soviet scholars saw the sect primarily as a product of...
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    Publishing. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4381-2676-0. Retrieved 2013-06-03. Sir Paul Rycaut (1686). The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. C. Brome...
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    was first published in English in London in 1685, translated by Sir Paul Rycaut and titled The Royal Commentaries of Peru. More than a century and a...
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    William Prideaux 1660–1661 Richard Baker 1661–1667 William Cave 1667–1677 Paul Rycaut 1677–1703 William Raye 1703–1716 William Sherrard 1716–1722 John Cooke...
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    inspiration from their Inca heritage. The first English translation was by Sir Paul Rycaut in 1685, entitled The Royal Commentaries of Peru. The book was not printed...
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