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A diplomat (from Ancient Greek: δίπλωμα; romanized diploma) is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
Diplomatic history deals with the history of international relations between states. Diplomatic history can be different from international relations in that the former can concern itself with the foreign policy of one state while the latter deals with relations between two or more states.
The term diplomacy is derived from the 18th-century French term diplomate ("diplomat" or "diplomatist"), based on the ancient Greek diplōma, which roughly means "an object folded in two". [4] This reflected the practice of sovereigns providing a folded document to confer some official privilege; prior to the invention of the envelope, folding ...
The greater ancient Near East (including Egypt) offers some of the oldest evidence of the existence of international relations, since it was there that states first developed (the city-states and empires of Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt) around the 4th millennium B.C.E. Almost 3000 years of the evolution of diplomatic relations are thus visible in sources from the ancient Near East.
Title page of Jean Mabillon's De re diplomatica (1681). Despite the verbal similarity, the discipline has nothing to do with diplomacy.Both terms are derived, by separate linguistic development, from the word diploma, which originally referred to a folded piece of writing material—and thus both to the materials which are the focus of study in diplomatics, and to accreditation papers carried ...
Diplomatic service is the body of diplomats and foreign policy officers maintained by the government of a country to communicate with the governments of other countries. . Diplomatic personnel obtain diplomatic immunity when they are accredited to other coun
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script.
World History Encyclopedia; Ancient Civilizations—British Museum's website on various topics of ancient civilization; Ancient history sourcebook; The Perseus digital library; Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman world; Directories. Ancient History - Academic Info: directory of online resources for the study of ancient history.