Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 11 окт. 2016 г. - Всего страниц: 304
This is the story of the House of Osman, the imperial dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire for more than seven centuries, an empire that once stretched from central Europe to North Africa and from Persia to the Adriatic. The capital of this empire was Istanbul, ancient Byzantium, a city that stands astride Europe and Asia on the Bosphorus. And it was in the great palace of Topkapi Sarayi that the sultans of this empire ruled. Inside the Seraglio - a classic of Ottoman history - takes us behind the gilded doors of the Topkapi and into the heart of the palace: the harem, where the sultan would surround himself with his wives, concubines, eunuchs, pages, dwarfs and mutes and where all the tempestuous events of empire were so often played out. This is the history of a remarkable palace in all its colour and opulence and the story of its influence on a great empire.
 

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Introduction to the New Edition
1462
Acknowledgements
1467
Preface
1468
Turkish Spelling and Pronunciation
1470
The House of Osman
1476
Mehmet the Conqueror
1487
The House of Felicity
1503
Süleyman the Magnificent
1521
The Procession of the Guilds
Three Mad Sultans
The Hunter Caged
A Cage for Princes
Tulip Time
Murder in the Music Room
The Auspicious Event
On the Shores of the Bosphorus

The Sultanate of Women
An Organ for the Sultan
Regicide
The Year of the Three Sultans
Imprisoned Sultans

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John Freely (1926-2017) was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China during the last years of World War II. He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens and Istanbul and has written over thirty travel books and guides, most of them about Greece and Turkey.

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