Are you watching the series “The Magnificent Century”? Do you want to know everything about the Sublime Porte and the history of the great Ottoman Empire? Are you eager to learn as much as possible about the treasures of the Ottomans, the bloodthirsty sultans and the beautiful slaves of the harems? Are you concerned about the fate of Roksolana and her children? Or maybe you just want to know what gifts – from poems to mosques – Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent gave to his only beloved wife? Or simply, what did Ottoman women wear, how did they deceive jealous husbands, and what drugs did they use to bewitch their lovers? Why did the sultans visit the hammam? Why were the heirs to the throne kept in the “Cage”? What is the mystery of the formidable Janissaries? What did the Zaporozhye Cossacks make fun of in their famous letter to the Turkish Sultan? What is reality in the series “The Magnificent Century” and what is fiction? This mini-encyclopedia will answer these and dozens of other questions.