In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, and H.H. Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, ...

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Almost 40 years previously, the Coudenberg Palace was also the scene of a ceremony for Charles ... Another foe was the Ottoman Empire, whose sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, boasted a court of equal ...

The Magnificent Century – or Harrem Al Sultan (The Sultan’s Harem) in its dubbed Arabic version – tells the tale of Suleiman and Roxelana, against a background of palace intrigue at the peak of ...

“The first is to take the throne in the palace, the second is to wield ... However, a century later, sultan Suleiman I had them plastered over. It’s thanks to the creation of the Turkish ...

Its journey began centuries ago when it was transplanted from a Balkan mountain clearing to the palace gardens of Constantinople. The Flemish diplomat and botanist Ogier Ghislaine de Busbeek, seeking ...

Suleiman I (1494-1566), the tenth sultan of the Ottoman dynasty ... Yet, nothing initially destined this Topkapi Palace school graduate for such a glorious fate. During the final years of his father ...

The Sultan’s harem once bathed in this royal Turkish bath in the Topkapi Palace. Photo: Christina Pfeiffer Some hammams ... Yeni Kaplıca Hammam – built in 1552 during the reign of Suleiman the ...