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How and why did the Ottoman court develop a system of racial segregation among its eunuchs, with East Africans serving the harem and Balkan Europeans (enslaved through the devşirme) serving other courtly functions like at the Palace School?

by /u/PablomentFanquedelic in /r/AskHistorians

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