Eunuchs

Connected Sites: 20

Eunuchs were mostly servants or slaves who, because of their function, had been castrated, usually in order to make them reliable servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence. This connection includes courts where eunuchs were employed.

Connected Sites

  • Summer Palace
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.90
    295
    9
  • Hué
    Hué
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.30
    239
    7
    Imperial Palace
  • Agra Fort
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.55
    242
    6
  • Thang Long
    Thang Long
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 2010
    2.08
    167
    9
  • Ravenna
    Ravenna
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1996
    4.15
    272
    8
    Basilica of San Vitale: "Another panel shows Empress Theodora solemn and formal, with a golden halo, crown and jewels, and a group of court women as well as eunuchs."
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Medina Azahara
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.82
    150
    10
    Young boys termed Slavs (Arabic Ṣaqāliba) in the Arabic texts were brought to Cordoba by the thousands to serve as palace eunuchs, . "The most lucrative slave market was the Islamic slavery in Al-Andalus. The Arabic Caliphate of Córdoba referred to the forests of Central and Eastern Europe, which came to function as a slave source supply, as the Bilad as-Saqaliba ("land of the slaves")." (wiki) - see link for Medina Azahara example
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Ashur
    Ashur
    Iraq
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.86
    18
    2
  • Persepolis
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.37
    103
    3
  • Imperial Palace
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.19
    334
    11
    Beijing
  • Granada
    Granada
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.39
    420
    12
    Alhambra
  • Cordoba
    Cordoba
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.18
    377
    9
    Young boys termed Slavs (Arabic Ṣaqāliba) in the Arabic texts were brought to Cordoba by the thousands to serve as palace eunuchs. "The most lucrative slave market was the Islamic slavery in Al-Andalus. The Arabic Caliphate of Córdoba referred to the forests of Central and Eastern Europe, which came to function as a slave source supply, as the Bilad as-Saqaliba ("land of the slaves")." (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Red Fort
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.11
    227
    4
  • Old City of Jerusalem
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.36
    275
    12
    Jerulsalem's Dome of the rock was guarded by black eunuchs (source: Eunuchs and Castrati: A Cultural History)
  • Mount Taishan
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    71
    7
    during imperial time eunuchs from the capital came here to perform Taoist services and pray for peace and longevity for the emperor, concubines, princes and princesses
  • Mountain Resort, Chengde
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.54
    62
    4
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    485
    12
    Topkapi Palace
  • Imperial Tombs
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.24
    218
    10
    Ming Imperial Tombs includes a tomb of an eunuch of the last Ming Emperor
  • Historic Cairo
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.66
    299
    11
    former center of eunuch trade (source: Eunuchs and Castrati: A Cultural History)
  • Fatehpur Sikri
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.38
    188
    9
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.15
    231
    7