Googled: Islamic prayer Ottoman army; prayer Ottoman army ( Read more... )

Setting: Berlin and an island of the coast of Turkey in early 1933
Searched: "death notifications 1930s", "death notifications 1930s germany", "death notification expat", "death notification expat 1930s", looked through the archives here

( cut for mentions of suicide )

It's about 1810 or 1820. Our Balkan baron has traveled to an inn at the top of a mountain pass somewhere in what used to be Thrace. In my writer's original text, the staff is described as annually vacating the place "when the first snow flies." Does this make economic sense? Or would at least some of them stick around doing maintenance? And where ( Read more... )

Are there any films/documentaries/books with illustrations/etcetera with decent depictions of 16th-century Turkish baths? (And I do mean the kind in Turkey, not Victorian imitations/takeoffs.)

The exact era doesn't really matter, so long as it wouldn't be anachronistic to have adolescent male attendants offering sex massages ( Read more... )

What is the last date that one could legally buy slaves at public auction ( Read more... )