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It is easier to read about Ottoman times in Turkish if you know the names of the most important people in the Palace:
Who Was Who in Ottoman Court?
♂ Padişah ‘sultan’
♀ Valide Sultan ‘the Sultan’s mother, Queen Mother, chief of the harem and a very powerful person in the empire’
♀ Sultan ‘queen, princess’. Attached before a name it was a title for a male member of the court, attached after a name it ment a female.
♂ Veliaht ‘crown prince’
♂ Șehzade ‘prince’
♀ Kadın ‘naming of the Sultan’s four official wives, among them was the crown prince’s mother’
♀ Haseki ´a concubine who had given birth to a son, mother of a prince´
♂ Sadrazam ‘grand vizier’
♂ Kızlar ağası, Harem ağası, Darüssaade ağası ‘The Chief Black Eunuch, the third highest official in the empire after the Sultan and the Grand Vizier, always castrated black African, often of Sudan origin, had a personal relationship with the Sultan and the Queen mother’
♂ Kapı ağası ‘The Chief White Eunuch, head of palace bureaucracy, headmaster of the Palace school’
♀ Cariye ‘concubine, a beautiful and intelligent slave girl, often captured in war’
♀ Usta, vekil usta, kethüda usta ´ranks of female servants´
♀ Gözde, ikbal ‘ranks of the Sultan’s favourite concubines’
♂ Hadım ‘castrated male slave’
♂ Acemi ağası, nöbet kalfası, ortanca, hasıllı, on ikinci hasıllı, yaylabaşı gulamı, yeni saray baş kapı gulamı ‘ranks of black eunuchs’
Edited (7/1/2012) by Abla
Edited (7/11/2012) by Abla
Edited (7/27/2012) by Abla
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