Topkapı Palace
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The Topkapı Palace or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From the 1460s to the completion of Dolmabahçe Palace in 1853, it served as t
View of the Topkapı Palace from the Golden Horn
Bağdat Köşkü, or Kiosk of Baghdad, located in Topkapı Palace, It was built under Sultan Murad IV.
Gate of Salutation
Sultan Mehmed II ordered the initial construction around the 1460s
Ottoman Imperial Harem
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The Ottoman Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the wives, servants, female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded portion of the Ot
Topkapı Palace
…Palace Museum. The palace complex has hundreds of rooms and chambers, but only the most important are accessible to the public as of 2020, including the Ottoman Imperial Harem and the treasury, called hazine where the Spoonmaker's Diamond and the Topkapi Dagger are on display. The museum collection also includes Ottoman…
A cariye or imperial concubine.
The Courtyard of the Favourites in the harem of Topkapı Palace
Chief Black Eunuch of the Ottoman court; Photo, 1912.
The Courtyard of the Eunuchs in Topkapı Palace