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Although one of the world’s longest running and most powerful empires we haven’t found much on the Ottoman Empire. But we have found a couple of gems.

Abraham Hannibal and the Battle For the Throne

Frances Mary Somers Cocks (Author), Eric Robson (Illustrator)

The second book in the Abraham Hannibal series, this quirky,  fascinating book explores life as a slave gardener in the palace of the Ottoman Sultan in the early 1700s.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1584858311/?tag=liviandlear-21

Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands)

Alev Lytle Croutier (Author)

Set in 1720′s this charts the story of a young girl tricked into slavery and taken to the Sultan’s palace in Istanbul, the heart of the Ottoman Empire.

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Leyla: Representation Black Tulip (Girls gradient Many Lands)

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Three women from the province of Salonika in Macedonia. From left to right: Jewish, Christian (Bulgar from Prilip), and Muslim. Photograph by Pascal Sébah. Osman Hamdi and Marie de Launay, Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873. Ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Commission impériale ottomane pour l’Exposition universelle de Vienne (Constantinople: Imprimerie du “Levant Times & Shipping Gazette,” 1873).

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Figure 5.1 A tobacco processing factory at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beth Hatefutsoth, Photography Archives, Tel Aviv. Greece, Salonika, 322/111.47.

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Figure 5.2 Six young women picking tobacco leaves under the supervision of the husband of one of them and his brother, c. 1920. Courtesy of the Mattaraso Family, Haifa.

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Figure 5.3 Prostitutes in the Bara (Vardar district). Detail of an anonymous postcard from the collection of Flor Safan Eskaloni.

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Figure 7.1 Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait of the Moldavian Princess Ecaterina Mavrocordat. Red and black chalk, 1742–43. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

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Figure 7.2 Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait d’une jeune femme en costume turc assise s