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Turkish woman playing the qanun.

Turkish women playing mangala.

View of the Second Courtyard of the Topkapi Palace, also known as the outer courtyard. On the left the Imperial Harem and Divan. On the right the Imperial Kitchens. In the background the Gate of Felicity, leading to the Third Courtyard of the Palace.

View of the interior of the Imperial Harem at Topkapi Place in Istanbul.

View of the quarters of Hatice Sultan (sister of the Sultan Selim III) in the Imperial Harem at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

The palace of Hatice Sultan (sister of the Sultan Selim III) at Defterdarburnu, on the western shores of Bosporus. Hatice Sultan entrusted A. I. Melling with designing the palace.

Frontispiece: Odalisques in the Harem.

Greek woman in the Harem.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Bride of Abydos": Ottoman prince with Greek slave in the Harem.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Bride of Abydos": Ottoman prince with odalisque in the Harem .

Portrait of Kizlar Aga, chief of the black eunuchs of the Harem of the Sultan.

Frontispiece. Sudanese eunuch of the Harem.

Odalisque of the Sultan's Harem.

Attendant responsible for order in the Sultan's Harem.

Sultana of the Imperial Harem.

Frontispiece to the third volume of the edition. The Prince heir to the Ottoman throne. Haseki Sultan, mother of the Prince heir and first sultana in the imperial harem's hierarchy.

A musician and a woman dancer of the Harem. The lady responsible for keeping order in the Harem.

Kizlar Aga, head of the black eunuchs of the imperial Harem. Odalisk of the imperial Harem.

Kapi Aga, the head of the white eunuchs of the imperial Harem.

Kislar Aga, head of the black eunuchs of the imperial palace.

Partial view of Seraglio Point (Sarayburnu) with Topkapi Palace. The plate shows the Tower of Justice in the second court of the palace and the Harem.