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Contrary to the common belief, harem is not necessarily a part of a palace and its inhabitants do not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has a sexual relation with. For example the harem of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman emperor's palace would contain several hundred women including wives, mistresses, emperor's mother, daughters and other female relatives and eunuchs and slave girls to serve the aforementioned women. Harem is also the usual English translation of the Chinese language term hougong, 後宮—literally meaning "the palaces behind." Hougong are large China|Chinese royal palaces for the emperor's consorts and female attendants. The women who lived in an emperor's hougong sometimes numbered in the thousands. The institution of the harem exerted a certain fascination on the European imagination, especially during Romanticism (see also Orientalism). In Zoology, the term is used for the social organization of certain species, such as those in the Hominidae and Equidae family (biology)|families, in groups of females surrounding a single dominant male. Non dominant males will organize themselves in bachelor groups. Wiktionary
de:Harem fr:Harem ja:ハレム Category:Behavior Category:Sociology This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Harem".
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