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    A seraglio, serail, seray or saray (from Persian: سرای, romanized: sarāy, lit. 'palace', via Turkish, Italian and French) is a castle, palace or government...
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    ʔɛntˈfyːʁʊŋ ʔaʊs dɛm zeˈʁaɪ]) (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
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  • Campanula seraglio, known as the Serail bellflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is native to northeastern Turkey. This...
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  • The Topkapı or Seraglio Octateuch (Topkapi Graecus 8) is a 12th-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript of the Octateuch. It is named after its location...
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    Sarayburnu (redirect from Seraglio Point)
    Sarayburnu (Turkish: Sarayburnu, meaning Palace Cape; known in English as the Seraglio Point) is a promontory quarter separating the Golden Horn and the Sea of...
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  • The Abduction from the Seraglio is a 1961 Australian TV version of Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail and sung in English. It was one of a number...
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    Maiden's Tower and the Seraglio Point...
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    Ottoman Sign Language, also known as Seraglio Sign Language or Harem Sign Language, was a deaf sign language of the Ottoman court in Istanbul. Nothing...
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  • Look up saray, seray, serail, or seraglio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saray, or seray (also spelt saraya or seraya), is a Turkish word from Persian:...
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    Constantinople), the tip of which is the promontory of Sarayburnu, or Seraglio Point. This estuarial inlet geographically separates the historic center...
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  • series on the Traditional Crossroads label: Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Vol. 1 - Sultan Composers Consisting of songs and pieces composed by imperial...
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    osmanische Staat 1300–1922. München 2001, S. 1. John Freely: Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of Sultans in Istanbul (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Paperback...
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    in parentheses, the numbering scheme of 1758. In 1711 Usbek leaves his seraglio in Isfahan to make the long journey to France, accompanied by his young...
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    View of the Golden Horn and the Seraglio Point from Galata Tower...
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    Petit Serail (redirect from Little Seraglio)
    The Petit Serail (Arabic: السراي الصغير / ALA-LC: as-sarāy as- ṣaghir; literally "Little Saray") was a historic administrative Ottoman building in Beirut...
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    Vassiliki, 1789–1834), was an influential Greek woman brought up in the seraglio of the Ottoman ruler Ali Pasha. Vassiliki Kontaxi was born in the Greek...
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  • Winds in B-flat major, K. 361, 3rd movement Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384, Turkish Finale Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201, 1st...
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    Verdelet, master of ceremonies. Succorbenoth, chief of the eunuchs of the seraglio. Chamos, Grand Chambelain, Knight of the Fly. Melchom, payer treasurer...
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  • dem Serail (English: Belmonte and Konstanze, or The Abduction from the Seraglio) by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner is a libretto, published in 1781, telling...
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    completed the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"), which premiered on 16 July 1782 and achieved considerable success. The...
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    Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. p. 85. Freely, John, Inside the Seraglio, 1999, Chapter 16: The Year of Three Sultans. van Millingen, Alexander...
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    Selim in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu in February 2009. Lee was also...
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    Turkish: odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan....
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  • cities. Hitler's private secretary, Martin Bormann, initiated Operation Seraglio, a plan to evacuate the key and favoured members of Hitler's entourage...
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    influence she wielded. The Imperial Harem of the Ottoman sultan, also called seraglio in the West, was part of Topkapı Palace. It also housed the valide sultan...
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    on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012. Freely, John – Inside the Seraglio, published 1999, Chapter 15: On the Shores of the Bosphorus Brookes, Douglas...
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    sacred".[citation needed] It has the same meaning as the Turkish word seraglio and the Persian word zenana. It is also similar to the Sanskrit word anthapura...
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    during Ottoman rule is now closed to the public: Bab as-Sarai (Gate of the Seraglio); a small gate to the former residence of the Pasha of Jerusalem; western...
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    Europe. In England, although the seraglio tradition was less developed, lions were kept at the Tower of London in a seraglio established by King John in the...
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    barracks; 2nd Tercio Duke of Alba Regiment of the Spanish Legion based in the Seraglio-Recarga cantonment; 3rd "Montesa" Cavalry Regiment (RC-3) located in the...
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