The Ottoman Empire
Season 1
Ep 9. Sultans in Topkapı, 1566-1648
- TV-PG
- May 26, 2017
- 31 min
Turn now to a period of decline, most notable for the emergence of the harem as a powerful political institution. Meet sultans including Murad III, a patron of the arts (especially miniaturist painting) and Ahmet I, an ineffective 13-year-old who presided over the "Sultanate of Women."