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Hürrem Sultan (Turkish: [hyɾˈɾæm suɫˈtan]; Ottoman Turkish: خرّم سلطان, "the joyful one"; c. 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана, romanized: Roksolana), was the chief consort, the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and the mother of Suleiman's successor Selim II.
The first haseki sultan was Roxelana, victim of the Crimean slave trade and wife of Süleyman the Magnificent, who became known as Hürrem Sultan after her conversion to Islam. Roxelana was mistakenly assumed to be of Russian descent, probably because of a mistranslation of her name, and European visitors treated her as Russian.
Haseki Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the legal wife of Sultan Süleyman I and mother of Sultan Selim II. (9 January 1561) The qanun was the semi-secular legal system that applied to all citizens of the Empire, and would contain laws enacted by the Ottoman sultan. Its stated purpose was to supplement religious (particularly Islamic ...
Sultan Bayezid II's statesmanship, tolerance, and intellectual abilities are depicted in the historical novel The Sultan's Helmsman, which takes place in the middle years of his reign. Sultan Bayezid II and his struggle with his son Selim is a prominent subplot in the video game Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana) Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566 Sultan and Caliph r. 1520–1566: Nurbanu Sultan: Selim II 1524–1574 Sultan and Caliph r. 1566–1574: Safiye Sultan: Murad III 1546–1595 Sultan and Caliph r. 1574–1595: Handan Sultan: Mehmed III 1566–1603 Sultan and Caliph r. 1595–1603: Halime Sultan [4] Mahfiruz Hatun ...
Selim was born on 28 May 1524 [3] in Constantinople during the reign of his father, Suleiman the Magnificent. [4] His mother was Hürrem Sultan, [5] [6] an Orthodox priest's daughter, [7] who was the current Sultan's concubine at the time. In 1533 or 1534, his mother, Hürrem, was freed and became Suleiman's legal wife.
Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم اول; Turkish: I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute [3] (Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. [4]
Şehzade Cihangir (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده جهانگير; 1531 – 27 November 1553) was an Ottoman prince, the sixth and youngest child of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan.