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The Harem Ağası, head of the black eunuchs of the Ottoman Imperial Harem. A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / ⓘ YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. [1] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [2] The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the ...
The vocal abilities of the eunuchs were appreciated in the early period of Byzantine history. Socrates Scholasticus tells of the choir led by the eunuch Brizon in connection with the struggle against the Arians in the late 4th century, which was led in the capital by Bishop John Chrysostom , also with the help of night chants. [ 24 ]
A group of eunuchs in a mural from the tomb of the prince Zhanghuai, 706 AD. A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / YOO-nək) [1] is a man who has been castrated. [2] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [3] In China, castration included removal of the penis as well as the testicles (see emasculation). Both organs were ...
Image of a 17th-century Kizlar Agha, from the Rålamb Book of Costumes. The kizlar agha (Ottoman Turkish: قيزلر اغاسی, Turkish: kızlar ağası, lit. ' "agha of the girls" '), formally the agha of the House of Felicity (Ottoman Turkish: دار السعاده اغاسي, Turkish: Darüssaade Ağası), [1] was the head of the eunuchs who guarded the Ottoman Imperial Harem in ...
The eunuchs of Korea, called Naesi (내시, 內侍), were officials to the king and other royalty in traditional Korean society. The first recorded appearance of a Korean eunuch was in Goryeosa ("History of Goryeo"), a compilation about the Goryeo period.
Vietnamese eunuchs in Nguyễn dynasty A cemetery of eunuchs at Từ Hiếu Temple, Huế. A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / YOO-nək) [1] is a man who has been castrated. [2] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [3] Regarding eunuchs, the Vietnamese adopted the eunuch system and castration techniques from China.
He wanted to create an empire where eunuchs were the superiors of every official in every branch of government, a scale which would have been unprecedented in Chinese history. Most of his radical reforms to this end are not known, because they were rigorously opposed by the civil officials and so were never implemented. [14] Financial
Five of these ten eunuchs were not among the historical Ten Attendants: Cheng Kuang is a fictional character (there was a eunuch by the name Cheng Huang [fl. 126–189] in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, his given name 璜 written and pronounced slightly similar to the fictional character 曠); Feng Xu and Jian Shuo existed historically, but ...