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Seraglio
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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In its restricted sense applied in the East to a harem or women's quarters in a royal household; the former residence of the sultan of Turkey, occupies a beautiful site on the E. side of Constantinople, on a projecting piece of land between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, enclosing within its 3 m. of wall government buildings, mosques, gardens, &c., chief of which is the harem, which occupies an inner enclosure.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Seraglio'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/seraglio.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Seraglio'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/seraglio.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
