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TIL in the Ottoman Empire, they would lock away spare male heirs in a part of the Imperial palace called the “Kafes” (“the cage”), and put them under lifelong confinement, unless they succeeded the throne. This was to avoid a war of succession, and ensure the survival of the royal dynasty.

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