An/Year: 1999
Auteur/Author: Freely John
Editeur/Editor/: Viking
Langue/Language: United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
Dimension: 24 x 16 cm
Condition: Used - Very Good

Private lives of the sultans in Istanbul.

• Condition : very good.

   

  
  The history 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, the ancient Byzantium, a city that straddled 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 gates of Topkapi and into the heart of the palace: the harem, where the sultan surrounded himself with his wives, concubines, eunuchs, pages, dwarfs and mutes and where the tumultuous events of the empire so often played out. This is the story of a remarkable palace, in all its colour and opulence, and the story of its influence on a great empire.