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March 20 dispatch from Constantinople on Kouli Kan siege plan
Telegraphic news from Constantinople reveals Kouli Kan, Persian general, near Babylon with an army over 60,000. The Porte mobilizes Bashans and European forces to relieve Babylon, while Tartary and Dagestan troops push Persia. Ottoman fortunes shift as Kouli Kan reportedly defeats relief forces and seizes Babylon. Mentions Abbasid and royal Ottoman lineages, deaths of royal children, and pope related notices in Rome and Naples.
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Porte
Thomas Kouli Kan
Kirmanca
Babylon
Bashans
Afta
Europe
Tartary
Diarbekir
Achmet Bashaw
Kouli-Kan
Sultan Achmet
Achmet
Sultan Suleiman
Ali Bashan
Nicangi
Sultan Ahmet
Musfelman
Naples
N.S
de Harach
Rome
Gaeta
Tripoli
Algiers
Sacred College
Quirinal
Cardinal Barberini
Cardinal Corcia
Castro
Ronciglione
Leafe
M. Castiglione
M. Canelli
Buffy
Cardinal Belluga
hin-Gegfitness
Gentili
Cardinal Rieiera
Civita Vecchia
Barbary
Alberoni
Placentia
Sarsini
Vintimiglia
M. Altoviti
Philip Patricii
Ecclesiastick
Sienna
Florence
Prussia
Leghorn
Cagliari
Sardinia
Arezzo
Everal
the Drake
Genoa
London
Coleman
Bastias
Cortica
Parma
N. S
Vienna
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Luxemburg
Warsaw
Brussels
Count de Fonseca
Austrian Netherlands
Carelsbad
Amsterdam
Baron de Munchhausen
Wolfembuttel
Prince of
Anhalt-Bernburg
Albertine
Albert
Count de Wartenslaben
Denmark