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Diplomatic document and box
(وثيقة دبلوماسية وصندوق)

Title	Diplomatic document and box
Title Original	وثيقة دبلوماسية وصندوق
Author	King Charles X Gustavus (r. 1654–60).
Publication Date:	7-1068/between May 1657 and January 1658
Publication Place	Ottoman encampment near Edirne, Turkey. - Swedish National Archives
Subject	Paper, ink, silk.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: 76سم؛ العرض: 50سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	Turcica 56
Record ID	object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;43;ar
Library Location	Swedish National Archives
Date	7-1068/between May 1657 and January 1658
Notes	This document is one of a collection of more than 120 diplomatic letters preserved in the Swedish National Archives that attest to Swedish relations with the Ottomans. In 1657, the Swedish King Charles The Grand Minister blames the king for his alliance with the former ruler of Transylvania, George Rakozy, and for his attack on Poland against the wishes of the Sultan. King Charles One year later, in 1656, he succeeded in defeating Poland, but the Sultan considered the Swedish attack on Poland as an attack on the Ottoman Empire. George II Rákózi (15-1660), who came to rule Moldavia and Wallachia with the help of Sultan Mehmed IV, supported the Swedish war against the Sultan’s wishes, and in 1657, for this reason, he lost the throne of Transylvania after instigation by the Ottomans. Claes Rallamp (1698-22), who resided in Istanbul from May 1657 to January 1658, was the first Swedish envoy to the Sublime Porte, and under these circumstances his mission failed. According to the inscription in the upper left corner, he presented this letter, preserved in a red silk box, on May 27, 1658, to Charles X Gustav in Gothenburg.
Sample Text	Friederike Voigt “Diplomatic document and box” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;43;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Friederike VOIGTFriederike Voigt has an MA in Iranian studies, history of art and social science and is currently working on her doctoral thesis on wall tiles in architectural decoration of Qajar Iran. Since 2004 she has been a project-related curator at the Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm for Museum With No Frontiers. She studied at Humboldt University in Berlin, at the University of Tehran and archaeology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. She taught Persian language at several universities in Germany. She was an assistant curator at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Cultures at the Museum of Ethnology, State Museums of Berlin. Her main fields of interest are the material culture of Iran, especially of the Qajar period, and contemporary Iranian art.
Seçili bibliyografya	Björkman, W., “Die Schwedisch-Türkischen Beziehungen bis 1800”, inFestschrift für Georg Jacob zum 70. Geburtstag, Leipzig, 1932.Zetterstéen, K. V.,Türkische, Tatarische und Persische Urkunden im Schwedischen Reichsarchiv, 1945, pp.25–6, no. 56.

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Diplomatic document and box

(وثيقة دبلوماسية وصندوق)

Author King Charles X Gustavus (r. 1654–60).

Publication Date 7-1068/between May 1657 and January 1658

Publication Place Ottoman encampment near Edirne, Turkey. - Swedish National Archives

Subject Paper, ink, silk.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: 76سم؛ العرض: 50سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID Turcica 56

Record ID object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;43;ar

Library Location Swedish National Archives

Date 7-1068/between May 1657 and January 1658

Notes This document is one of a collection of more than 120 diplomatic letters preserved in the Swedish National Archives that attest to Swedish relations with the Ottomans. In 1657, the Swedish King Charles The Grand Minister blames the king for his alliance with the former ruler of Transylvania, George Rakozy, and for his attack on Poland against the wishes of the Sultan. King Charles One year later, in 1656, he succeeded in defeating Poland, but the Sultan considered the Swedish attack on Poland as an attack on the Ottoman Empire. George II Rákózi (15-1660), who came to rule Moldavia and Wallachia with the help of Sultan Mehmed IV, supported the Swedish war against the Sultan’s wishes, and in 1657, for this reason, he lost the throne of Transylvania after instigation by the Ottomans. Claes Rallamp (1698-22), who resided in Istanbul from May 1657 to January 1658, was the first Swedish envoy to the Sublime Porte, and under these circumstances his mission failed. According to the inscription in the upper left corner, he presented this letter, preserved in a red silk box, on May 27, 1658, to Charles X Gustav in Gothenburg.

Sample Text Friederike Voigt “Diplomatic document and box” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;43;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Friederike VOIGTFriederike Voigt has an MA in Iranian studies, history of art and social science and is currently working on her doctoral thesis on wall tiles in architectural decoration of Qajar Iran. Since 2004 she has been a project-related curator at the Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm for Museum With No Frontiers. She studied at Humboldt University in Berlin, at the University of Tehran and archaeology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. She taught Persian language at several universities in Germany. She was an assistant curator at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Cultures at the Museum of Ethnology, State Museums of Berlin. Her main fields of interest are the material culture of Iran, especially of the Qajar period, and contemporary Iranian art.

Seçili bibliyografya Björkman, W., “Die Schwedisch-Türkischen Beziehungen bis 1800”, inFestschrift für Georg Jacob zum 70. Geburtstag, Leipzig, 1932.Zetterstéen, K. V.,Türkische, Tatarische und Persische Urkunden im Schwedischen Reichsarchiv, 1945, pp.25–6, no. 56.