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thumb|upright=1.1| A cariye or imperial concubine.

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thumb|upright=1.1| A cariye or imperial concubine.

Cariye (, "Jariya") was a title and term used for category of enslaved women concubines in the Islamic world of the Middle East. They are particularly known in history from the era of Ottoman Empire, where they existed until the early 20th century, when the Ottoman Imperial Harem was closed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cariye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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