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state of Carchemish.
Political eunuchism became a
fully established institution among the
Achaemenid Empire.
Eunuchs (called
Imperial Aramaic: סריס,...
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privilege was
through eunuchism.: 128
Besides the
royal palace,
bureaucratic elites, such as
mandarin officials, also
hired eunuchs to be
servants in their...
- A
eunuch is a man who has been castrated.
Eunuch or
Eunuchs may also
refer to:
Eunuch (TV series), a 1980 Hong Kong TV
series Eunuch (film), a 1986 South...
- The
Ethiopian eunuch (Amharic: ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a
figure in the New
Testament of the Bible. The
story of his
conversion to
Christianity at the preaching...
- in the world. He also took
great care
breaking the
power of the
court eunuchs and
unrelated magnates,
enfeoffing his many sons
throughout China and attempting...
- In the
Indian subcontinent,
hijra are transgender, inter****, or
eunuch people who live in
communities that
follow a
kinship system known as the guru-chela...
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Baghdad at the
beginning of the 10th
Century had 7,000
black eunuchs and 4,000
white eunuchs in his palace." The Arab
slave trade typically dealt in the...
- The
eunuch flute,
onion flute, or
mirliton (/ˈmɜːrlɪtɒn/; French: flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon or mirliton; German: Zwiebelflöte) is a membranophone...
- The
Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by
Germaine Greer that
became an
international bestseller and an
important text in the
feminist movement. Greer's thesis...
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housed enslaved concubines. In
former times, some
harems were
guarded by
eunuchs who were
allowed inside. The
structure of the
harem and the
extent of monogamy...
