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diplomatic quarter |
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The area within certain capital cities where foreign states are required, encouraged, or simply choose to maintain their diplomatic missions. For example, from the end of the sixteenth century until the 1920s the foreign embassies in Istanbul were concentrated in Pera on the heights above Galata on the northern side of the Golden Horn. In the early modern period certain of these quarters – notably in Rome and Madrid – claimed franchise du quartier, that is that the inviolability of the missions within them extended to the quarter as a whole. Though this extravagant assertion of exterritoriality had been effectively extinguished in Europe by the end of the seventeenth century, it reappeared in somewhat different guise in the Far East in the nineteenth. The most remarkable case was provided by the legation quarter in Peking. This survived a prolonged siege during the Boxer uprising in 1900, and under Article VII of the Final Protocol imposed by the allied powers on China shortly afterwards was granted ‘exclusive control’ of its own affairs, including its own defence. Annex 14 contained a map showing the precise boundaries of this second ‘forbidden city’, which for once signified that exterritoriality meant what it said. The 1924 edition of the Tienstin Press Guide to Peking and its Environs states in matter-of-fact tones that ‘In its present aspect Legation Quarter has the appearance of a small fortress of rectangular shape’. Control of the legation quarter was handed back to China in 1945. |
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