A Glimpse Into an Ottoman Sultan's Harem

Better to be a heathen gay than a Christian, Islamic or Buddhist hetero!!!

one of the down point of dectatorship

"Islam became the law of the land."

No it didn't. The Ottomans didn't rely on Islamic law or sharia law to rule their territories. Early on customs and "secular law", for lack of a better word, supplemented and often supplanted Islamic law, but later on they codified their secular laws to better manage the vast realm from a centralized seat.

The US Capitol doesn't have a relief of Suleiman I in the chamber of the House of Representatives just because he was a good looking guy.

so is harem haram or no haram

When women say they want a luxurious lifestyle this what I be thinking but then when reality hits them all a sudden thrrr ok with average 😂😂😂

Why are all the men in the pictures brown or wearing Arab clothes?

"With the Sultans...Sultans of Swing" *insert Mark Knopfler's Guitar riff XDD

My German-American mother became OBSESSED with the show Magnificent Century during quarantine - sending this video to her because it has so many clips from it!

You continue to call those poor GIRLS "women". Make some research on it, it's not so hard. I can bet in 10 years you'll stop mention slavery trade too.

Plush prison.

Should mention video purely based by European perspective,
Nudidity is haram in islam, imagery used inappropriate and has no relation with history

Great Job man, both Persian Kings and Ottoman Sultans had Harems. Make a video on the Harems of The Persian kings next

True face of Islam and turk

European made Harem are the hottest Harem, and a men’s dream 😅

disgusting barberians

Roxelana transformed the Harem into a political institution that wielded power.

It's stupid contain!! Bullsit!!!

These people were really beautiful

Every men's dream

I’d like to see videos on the harems of the Ottomans’ contemporaries in Safavid Persia and Mughal India. From what I understand, royal Mughal women were known to accompany the emperor on hunts and campaigns, and the harem was guarded by specially trained female soldiers called urdubegis.

Frankly we have no interest since it is outrageous how they treat women

Oh

And this is what slavcels in particular fought against? Good job poles, Simon Mol insteadxof Sultan took your women.

To this day harem and the ones in it are hidden.

İngilizce bilmediğim için Türkçe yazıyorum. Harem adı üstünde yasak olan yer demektir. Her şeyden önce okuldur. Asıl maksat toplumda soyluluğun önüne geçmektir. Yine Sultan'ın eşleri haricindekiler diplomatlarla ya da büyük makam sahipleriyle evlendirilirdi. Osmanlı hareminde yaşayan son cariye 1960 yılında vefat etmiş ve hiçbir şekilde harem hakkında konuşmamıştır. Çünkü harem cariyelerin anne babasıydı. Çünkü harem yasaktı. :)

Turk women are playing their trade now in German night clubs 🤣

NICE😊

Ottoman Empire is the original game of thrones 🤌😂

Gilded cage

if you don't have proofs and valid references than you should stop such non sens. in fact you mixed up islamic empires with nasty christian empires. for your kind information things were totally different in islamic empires. if you say HARAM that clearly means they considered those women as their honour and gave respect just like their wives. rest better to speak on your own empires that you know better actually. history is not a joke

How about Royal Mistresses or Mistress en-titre? Was there a video of that?

High class slaves is what they really were. Just sayin 🤷🏽‍♂️

You wanna tell the world how unics where specifically black because the Quran told them to do it.

When women comes to power they destroy the empire men bled to build.

Even the harems had racism. Only white women were put in such harems and considered Beautiful.

What happened to Sultan's daughters and their mothers? Harems were depicted as pleasure house but think of the sorrow and bloodshed when a new sultan came into power and murdered all his half brothers in a single day.

Wasn't this barred in Islam, how are these Islamic ideals then or someone to brag about as a culture

Women naked when they in "hamam" this place like bath and of course thet have to be naked

How awful these poor women not allowed to marry and have husband's of their own...Can't imagine having to share my husband...I am sure none of these women allowed multiple husbands...

Some of the images you used to depict “black” eunuchs are actually of North African and Arab merchants and sultans, not slaves.

Hey guys, there are such funny and annoying comments about Turks in this video that I am very surprised 🤣😡 1) Turks are an Aryan (White) ethnicity speaking Altaic language. Turks are not Mongols. The similarity of the languages ​​of the Mongols and the Turks does not prove that they are of the same origin. In other words, all the first Turks had light hair and blue eyes. 2) The result of the genetic tests performed on all Turks in the world is the R1a haplogroup. Today, the people with the highest R1a haplogroup are the Bashkir Turks. (80%) This is another proof that Turks are white. 3) Later, some of the Turks migrated from Ukraine to Central Asia. As a result, they mixed with the Asian races there, and Turks, similar to the Mongols, were formed. These are the Huns. 4) In most of the sources written in ancient times, it is written that most of the Turks (Arab, Russian) had blond hair. (Kipchak and Oghuz Turks). Later, when the Turks came to Anatolia, they mixed with the peoples here. (Greeks, Celts, Persians, Caucasians...). During the Ottoman period, the Turks also mixed with the Slavs in the Balkans. 5) In other words, our blond hair and blue eyes originate from both our Turkish ancestors and our Slavic and Celtic ancestors. To say that there are no blond-haired Turks is as absurd as to say that there are no blond-haired Norwegians. Saying Turks are blonde because they mix with Slavs is as absurd as saying Swedes are blonde because they mix with Norwegians.😄6) Finally, today only 30% of Turks in Turkey seem to be from the Middle East. (I guess) the outlook is different all over Turkey. At no time in our history have we lived and mixed with Arabs. Middle Easterners and Arabs are different from each other. (Arab, Jewish Y-DNA J-1, other Middle Easterners J-2)In other words, Ertuğrul, the ancestor of the Ottoman Emperors, also had light hair and white skin. Ottoman emperors married Slavic women not because they were white, but because Slaves were usually Slavs.Please stop your nonsense about us (culture, language, race, appearance)🙏👍

If you look at the images in this video, you can easily understand the thoughts of Western Europeans about Turks (physical appearance, culture, language). Unfortunately, we still deal with these ridiculous perceptions today.😡

When I had my ancestry results done. It found I had Ukrainian maternal DNA that was traced to Turkey. I was pretty confused lol😅 but someone told me my several greats back grandmother could have been a harem slave. Could that be true?

Dark skin Black eunuchs were also preferred over white eunuchs because the women in the harem were usually white, meaning the sultans were usually light skinned and therefore any black eunuch who somehow managed to impregnate a white concubine would quickly be caught out as the baby would obviously be mixed race and not be the sultan’s

Now you have blonde and gorgeous women in Turkey down to Lebanon

sorry what? the Sultan's mum selected the women he would sleep with? lmao