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a happy home
The inner and residential part of the Seraglio was called the House of Happiness. It was hard to imagine who was happy there. Certainly not the fifteen hundred women of the harem. For most of them life was like that … Continue reading
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Tagged Evliya Effendi, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Giles Milton, Grand Seraglio, J.A.D. Ingres, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moritz Stifter, Ottoman Empire harem, Ottoman Empire History, Roxelana and Suleiman, Selim the Sot, Seraglio First Mistress of the Coffee, Seraglio House of Happiness, Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror
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dinner is served: lonely at the top in the HMS Sultan
The social life in the Grand Seraglio was not all it had been cracked up to be. The power exercised there by the Sultan was absolute to be sure. But did it bring bliss? … When the Sultan got back … Continue reading
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Tagged Evliya Effendi, Franz Xavier Simm, Grand Seraglio, Jean-Claude Flachat, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottaviano Bon, Ottoman Empire Sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent
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suspicious minds
Good to walk around with a mirror just to see who may be sneaking up on you. Hard to find a Sultan who wasn’t suspicious and didn’t keep a food tester on the payroll. And lets not talk about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aya Sofia mosque, Conquest of Constantinople, Fabbi Fabbio, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Hagia Sophia church, Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Claude Flachat, john frederick lewis, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottaviano Bon, Selim III sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Valide Sultans
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rocks of ages and sages
Christian monks burrowed like worms into porous stone from, giant cones which wind and weather carved. These are the rock monasteries of Cappadocia and in the days of Byzantium the monks tuned these giant cones into a city of cells, … Continue reading
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Tagged byzantium history, Cappadocia churches, Church of the Serpent Cappadocia, Frank Aksoy, frank aksoy conquest 1453, Jason Goodwin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottoman Turks, Saint George and the Dragon, Suleiman the Magnificent, The Dark Church Cappadocia, turkish monasteries
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