Seraglio

A seraglio is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household, from an Italian variant of Turkish saray, meaning 'palace, enclosed courts'. Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı) is the main Ottoman palace in Istanbul, now a museum. A caravanserai, an alternate westernization of saray, is an inn or rest stop for caravans. The word has a Persian origin and comes from Persian سرای sar?y.

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It is related to harem, and therefore in the heated European Orientalism imagination a place of dalliance, debauchery and odalisques. The term can also refer to any traditional Turkish palaces and grand houses built around courtyards.

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Seraglio related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Toilet in the Seraglio	The Grand Lord in His Seraglio with the Kislar Agassi 18th Century	Constantinople Under Turkish Rule The Seraglio Palace in the Foreground the Golden Horn	A Sultan with a Horse and a Page in the Second Court of the Seraglio
Osman I Founder of the Ottoman Empire in the Year 1300 from an Original Picture in the Seraglio