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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.
Roxelana, a victim of the Crimean slave trade, became an umm al-walad when giving birth to a child acknowledged by her enslaver, sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. In the Muslim world, the title of umm al-walad (Arabic: أم الولد, lit.
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.
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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
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