Iftikhar (medal) to Dr Clemente Carletti
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Berge Eramian Archive
Code:
356
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra
Charlotte Steffen
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This Iftikhar (medal) was bestowed on Dr Clemente Carletti for his distinguished service as a Chief Medical Officer in the First Division of the Second Imperial Ottoman Army. The document bears the tughra (cipher) of Sultan Abdul Aziz (1861-1876), and is dated 1279 in the Moslem calendar which translates to 1863 in ours. This document was translated from the old Ottoman Turkish script into English in Cyprus for his son, Joseph.