Rarely have women in history played a more deliciously mysterious role than that of the 600 years of the Ottoman Empire, when what is modernday Turkey and lands from the Balkans to Syria sat at the center of a great Empire. These were the days of the harem, when women and girls as young as seven years old were held in a secret world where they could be governed, educated, and primarily enjoyed by the sultan and his court.


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