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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.
He had four elder brothers, Şehzade Mehmed, Şehzade Selim (future Selim II), Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Abdullah, who died at three years old, and an elder sister Mihrimah Sultan. [1] [2] He was educated together with his older brothers under supervision of his time. He wrote poems with the pen name Zarifi, and was also interested in ...
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.
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.
[2] [3] His father was Sultan Abdul Hamid II, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. [4] His mother was Bidar Kadın, [5] [6] paternal Circassian and maternal Georgian belonged to Lortkipanidze family. [7] He was the second child of his mother. [4] He had a sister Naime Sultan two years elder than him. [2]
Son of Suleiman I and Hürrem Sultan. Reigned until his death. 12 Murad III: 27 December 1574 – 16 January 1595 (20 years, 20 days) Son of Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan. Reigned until his death. 13 Mehmed III: 16 January 1595 – 22 December 1603 (8 years, 340 days) Son of Murad III and Safiye Sultan. Reigned until his death; 14 Ahmed I: 22 ...
Sultan r. 1444–1446 r. 1451–1481: Ayşe Gülbahar Hatun [2] Bayezid II 1448–1512 Sultan r. 1481–1512: Ayşe Hafsa Sultan [3] Selim I 1466–1520 Sultan r. 1512–1520 Caliph r. 1517–1520: Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana) Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566 Sultan and Caliph r. 1520–1566: Nurbanu Sultan: Selim II 1524–1574 Sultan and ...
Şehzade Mustafa (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; c.1516/1517 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince, son of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his concubine Mahidevran Hatun. He was Suleiman's oldest survived son, the governor of Manisa from 1533 to 1541 and of Amasya from 1541 to 1553, when he was executed by his father's order ...