apartment in Istanbul Topkapı Palace Harem video navigation

lûgatte protected, which means holy and venerable place. Home, palaces, mansions and generally facing the inner courtyard of a planned manner, the part of women continue their daily lives freely without meeting foreign men.

Here is a woman who lives in the harem is called, these sections of Islam, especially the woman of a certain blood ties outside the household of men (nâmahrem) prohibits the entry

Specially worth to see is the Harem as part of the Topkapi palace in Istanbul. It was the living area of the osmanic Sultans and their families until 1856. The last woman left the Harem at around 1920. Unfortunately most of the former Interior is removed.