2014.05.02 20:23
The Topkapı Palace is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years (1465-1856) of their 624-year reign.
As well as a royal residence, the palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a major...
2014.05.02 20:14
Matrakçı Nasuh , born in the Bosnian town of Visoko, was a gifted Janissar who went through both the Infantry and devsirme system, a gifted swordsman, and sharpshooter well known for his intellect; he spoke five languages and was recruited into the Ottoman Nav.
Although born to Bosnian Muslim...
2014.05.02 19:57
The word harem is strictly applicable to Muslim households only, but the system was common, more or less, to most ancient oriental communities, especially where polygamy was permitted.
The imperial harem of the Ottoman sultan, which was also called seraglio in the West, typically housed several...
2014.05.02 19:49
Born in Amasa, Selim dethroned his father Baezid II. (1481–1512) in 1512. Bayezid’s death followed immediately thereafter.Selim put his brothers and nephews to death upon his accession in order to eliminate potential pretenders to the throne.This fratricidal policy was motivated by bouts of...
2014.05.02 19:42
The origins of the Janissaries are shrouded in myth, although traditional accounts credit Orhan I, an early Osman be who reigned from 1326 to 1359, as the founder. Modern historians such as Patricl Kinross date the formation of the Janissaries to around 1365, during the rule of Orhan's son murad...
2014.04.26 12:56
Islam is a verbal noun originating from the trilliteral root s-l-m which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, safeness and peace. In a religious context it means "voluntary submission to God".Muslim, the word for an adherent of Islam, is the activ participle of...
2014.04.26 12:46
Little is known of Mahidevran’s early life. Her ethnical background is a matter of controversy. She was either from Caucasus or from Albania. According to an interview with Saide Perizat Temrukoğlu, a descendant of Mahidevran, Mahidevran was the daughter of Temruk, a 16th-century Kabarday prince....
2014.04.26 12:38
Hürrem Sultan (Turkish pronunciation: 1500 – 18 April 1558, birthname unknown, according to later traditions either Alexandra Lisowska/La Rossa or Anastasia, also known as Roxelana, was the favorite consort and later the legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and...
2014.04.26 11:54
A janicsár, ( yeniçeri (jenicseri), új sereg) az oszmán-török seregben szolgáló zsoldos gyalogságnak a katonája. Az első janicsárcsapatokat 1362-benI.Murád szultán hozta létre, melynek az ideológiai alapját az 1300-as években megalakult baktesi dervisrend szolgáltatta. A janicsárokat a...
2014.04.26 11:40
A janicsárok segítségével 1512. április 25-én édesapját megbuktatta, két testvérét és öt unokaöccsét megölette, a trónt pedig elfoglalta. Ezenfelül kivégeztetett a hadsereg előtt két magas rangú tisztet, akik fegyelmezetlenségre adtak okot. Bajazid nemsokkal későbbi halála ugyancsak nem erősítette...
