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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.
Turhan Sultan governed the Ottoman Empire as regent during the minority of her son Mehmed IV in 1651–1656, having won a struggle with his grandmother (Kösem Sultan) for the role. She also contributed to the empire's defense, spending large amounts of money on the reconstruction and fortification of key military strongholds.
Son of Selim I and Hafsa Sultan. Died of natural causes in his tent during the Siege of Szigetvár in 1566. [27] Transformation of the Ottoman Empire (1550–1700) 11 Selim II: 29 September 1566 – 15 December 1574 (8 years, 77 days) Son of Suleiman I and Hürrem Sultan. Reigned until his death. 12 Murad III: 27 December 1574 – 16 January 1595
Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان اول, romanized: Süleyman-ı Evvel; Turkish: I. Süleyman, pronounced; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ottoman Turkish: قانونى سلطان سليمان, romanized: Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his Ottoman realm, was the longest-reigning sultan ...
Behind the qibla wall (southeast wall) of the mosque is an enclosed cemetery which contains the separate mausoleums of Sultan Suleiman I and his wife Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana). The large octagonal mausoleum of Suleiman the Magnificent bears the date of 1566, the year of his death, but it was probably not completed until the following year. [49]
Haseki Sultan Imaret was an Ottoman public soup kitchen established in Jerusalem to feed the poor during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. 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 ...
Letter of Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana) to Sigismund II Augustus, complementing him for his accession to the throne in 1549. In 1503, Alexander I signed a five-year treaty with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II. [1] Alexander's successor king Sigismund the Old (1506–1548) also signed a treaty with Selim I in 1519 after he had lost Smolensk to the ...
Waldemar Pieper, German admiral who served as a pasha in the Ottoman army and was instrumental in the expansion of ammunition factories in the empire; Otto von Lossow, German officer who assisted the Ottoman Army and the many German military advisors in planning the ongoing response to Allied landings at Gallipoli