The conception of Ottoman house represents a civil architecture which occurs in the area of the former Ottoman Empire. Most of these houses can be found in Anatolia and in the Balkans. This urban and rustic architecture has its own typical features. They are storey houses with the ground, the first, the second, or even the third floor. For these houses it is typical that they have the overlapping upper storey to the sides or oriels, which are buttressed by wooden braces. Most frequently their ground floor is walled from stones and the upper floors has a wooden, half- timbered frame with a filling from unburnt bricks. On the ground floor there is a servis area and on the upper floors there are some habitable rooms. These rooms were divided into the male and the female – family section. They could be also divided according to the seasons to the rooms for the winter living and for the summer living. The most specific feature of an Ottoman house is it´s residential function.
Harem was a part of all rich houses, but the Sultan´s Harem was always attracted the biggest attention. It was a residence, which was inhabited by family, mainly by women with small children, daughters and slave girls. The Ottoman Sultan´s Harem, where mostly several hundreds of girl slaves were situated, was ruled by the Sultan´s mother – valide sultan. Sultans were not in a personal contact with all girls. Only between ten and twenty women were in their immediate vicinity. They were represented by wives – kadin, felicities – ikbal, favourites – gözde and maidservants. The Sultan´s Harem was an institution, which had a strict protocol and the given function hierarchy., Kateřina Vytejčková., and Obsahuje poznámky a seznam literatury