Are you watching the TV series "The Magnificent Century"? Want to know all about the Brilliant Port and the history of the great Ottoman Empire? Are you eager to learn as much as possible about the treasures of the Ottomans, about the bloodthirsty sultans and the beautiful slaves of the harems? Do you care about the fate of Roxolana 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 just what Ottoman women wore, how did they deceive jealous husbands and what drugs did they charm their lovers with? Why did the sultans visit the hamam? 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 TV series "The Magnificent Century," and what is fiction? These and dozens of other questions will be answered by this mini-encyclopedia.