EMPRESS OF THE EAST: HOW A EUROPEAN SLAVE GIRL BECAME QUEEN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE By Leslie Peirce Basic Books, $32, 359 pages In the early 16th century, long before the advent of newspapers, one of ...
A Ukrainian girl is kidnapped from her village at the age of 15, taken as a slave to the Ottoman Empire, but ends up marrying Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The story is 500 years old, and often ...
A girl born and raised in what is now western Ukraine, was, “abducted, snatched away, ” says Leslie Peirce,” Roxelana is what she was called by the Europeans but among the Ottomans she was called ...
Could one reason be that the Turks themselves have done much to forget their Ottoman past? A Westernised secular republic since 1923, they spent the first half of the 20 th century trying to redress ...
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