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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 ...
It was commissioned by Hurrem Sultan (also known as Roxelana, the wife and consort of Sulieman the Magnificent), consort and wife of the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. It was designed by Mimar Sinan on the site of the historical Baths of Zeuxippus for the religious community of the nearby Hagia Sophia.
Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan ...
The imaret was part of a massive Waqf complex built in 1552 by Haseki Hürrem Sultan, better known in the West as Roxelana, the favorite wife of Sultan Suleiman I. [2] [3] This soup kitchen was said to have fed at least 500 people twice a day.
Former lover convicted of homicide in brutal death of Kania Brunson, 20, after wife learned of affair. Gannett. ... Brunson was also a secret – Sultan Shareef's secret. Shareef, now 54, had been ...
Hurrem Sultan (c.1502-1558), the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent Hester Davenport (1642-1717), English actress who used Roxalana as her stage name Topics referred to by the same term