Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace was the seat of power for the Ottoman Empire for nearly 400 years. A vast 700,000-square-meter ...
Oleksandra Shutko, a researcher of Ottoman Empire history, has published a new book in which she draws on archival documents ...
Glass ceilings in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire were made of cut stone, secured by iron locks, ringed with imposing walls and guarded by armies of eunuchs. The Ottoman women closest to imperial ...
A Ukrainian girl is kidnapped from her village at the age of 15, taken as a slave to the Ottoman Empire, but ends up marrying Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The story is 500 years old, and often ...
President Erdogan and his wife Emine have been married for 38 years The wife of Turkey's president has described the harem of the Ottoman era as an "educational establishment that prepared women for ...
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