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Sultanate of Women

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The Sultanate of Women (Kadınlar Saltanatı) was the nearly 130-year period during the 16th and 17th centuries when the women of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence over state matters and over the (male) Ottoman sultan, starting from the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. [1]

41 relations: Ahmed I, Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I), Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Murad III), Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim II), Şehzade Abdullah, Şehzade Bayezid, Şehzade Cihangir, Şehzade Mahmud (son of Mehmed III), Şehzade Mehmed, Fatma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I), Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I), Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Selim II), Halime Sultan, Handan Sultan, Hanzade Sultan, Haseki sultan, Hurrem Sultan, Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Ismihan Sultan, Kösem Sultan, List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed III, Mehmed IV, Mihrimah Sultan, Minor (law), Murad III, Murad IV, Mustafa I, Nurbanu Sultan, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Imperial Harem, Rüstem Pasha, Safiye Sultan, Selim II, Seljuk Empire, Siege of Vienna, Suleiman the Magnificent, Turhan Hatice Sultan, Valide sultan, Women in government.

Ahmed I

Ahmed I (احمد اول; I.; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

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Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan

Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan (1541–1594) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Rüstem Pasha (Grand Vizier 1544–53, 1555–61).

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Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

Ayşe Sultan (1605/08 – 1656/57; Ottoman Turkish:عائشة سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I (reign 1603–17) and Kösem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Osman II (reign 1618–22) and sister of Sultan Murad IV (reign 1623–40) and Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) of the Ottoman Empire.

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Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Murad III)

Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عائشہ سلطان; died 15 May 1605) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574 - 1595) and Safiye Sultan, as well as sister of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595 - 1603) of the Ottoman Empire.

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Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim II)

Şah Sultan (1544 – September 1580) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Selim II (reign 1566–74) and Nurbanu Sultan.

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Şehzade Abdullah

Şehzade Abdullah (1522–1525) was an Ottoman prince (şehzade), as the son of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Şehzade Bayezid

Şehzade Bayezid (1525 – 25 September 1561) was an Ottoman prince as the son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his legal wife Hürrem Sultan.

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Şehzade Cihangir

Şehzade Cihangir (9 December 1531– 27 November 1553) was the sixth and youngest child of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan.

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Şehzade Mahmud (son of Mehmed III)

Şehzade Mahmud (شہزادہ محمود; died 7 June 1603) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan.

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Şehzade Mehmed

Şehzade Mehmed (1521–1543) was an Ottoman prince (şehzade), son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan.

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Fatma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

Fatma Sultan (1605 – after 1667) was an Ottoman princess.

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Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

Gevherhan Sultan (کوھرخان سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I (reign 1603–17) and Kösem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Osman II (reign 1618–22), and sister of Sultans Murad IV (1623–40) and Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) of the Ottoman Empire.

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Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Selim II)

Gevherhan Sultan (born 1544, کوھرخان سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566—1574) and Nurbanu Sultan.

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Halime Sultan

Halime Sultan (حلیمه سلطان) was a consort of Sultan Mehmed III, and the mother of Sultan Mustafa I and the Valide Sultan as well as a regent of the Ottoman empire.

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Handan Sultan

Handan Sultan (خندان سلطان; died 9 November 1605) was the consort of Sultan Mehmed III, and Valide Sultan to their son Sultan Ahmed I.

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Hanzade Sultan

Hanzade Sultan was an Ottoman princess.

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Haseki sultan

Haseki Sultan (خاصکى سلطان, Ḫāṣekī Sulṭān) was the imperial title used for the chief consort of an Ottoman Sultan.

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Hurrem Sultan

Hurrem Sultan (خرم سلطان, Ḫurrem Sulṭān, Hürrem Sultan; 1502 – 15 April 1558), often called Roxelana, was the favourite and later the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent.

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Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire

Ibrahim (ابراهيم, İbrahim; 5 November 1615 – 18 August 1648) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648.

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Ismihan Sultan

Ismihan Sultan (1544 – 7 August 1585) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Selim II (reign 1566–74) and Nurbanu Sultan.

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Kösem Sultan

Kösem Sultan (كوسم سلطان) (1589 – 2 September 1651) – also known as Mahpeyker SultanDouglas Arthur Howard, The official History of Turkey, Greenwood Press,, p. 195 (Māh-peyker) – was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history.

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List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.

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Mehmed III

Mehmed III (Meḥmed-i sālis; III.; 26 May 1566–21 December 1603) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603.

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Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع Meḥmed-i rābiʿ; Modern Turkish: IV. Mehmet; also known as Avcı Mehmet, Mehmed the Hunter; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687.

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Mihrimah Sultan

Mihrimah Sultan (مهر ماه سلطان) (1522 – 25 January 1578) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his legal wife, Hürrem Sultan.

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Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood.

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Murad III

Murad III (Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث Murād-i sālis, Turkish: III.Murat) (4 July 1546 – 15/16 January 1595) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595.

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Murad IV

Murad IV (مراد رابع, Murād-ı Rābiʿ; 26/27 July 1612 – 8 February 1640) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

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Mustafa I

Mustafa I (24 June 1591 – 20 January 1639), called Mustafa the Saint (Veli Mustafa) during his second reign and often called Mustafa the Mad (Deli Mustafa) by modern historians, was the son of Mehmed III and was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.

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Nurbanu Sultan

Afife Nurbanu Sultan (نور بانو سلطان; 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the principal consort and later legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as well as Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1595).

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Ottoman Imperial Harem

The Imperial Harem (حرم همايون, Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem composed of the wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives, and the sultan's concubines, occupying a secluded portion of the Ottoman imperial household.

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Rüstem Pasha

Rüstem Pasha Opuković (رستم پاشا; Rustem-Paša Opuković 1500 – 10 July 1561) was a Croatian-born Ottoman statesman.

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Safiye Sultan

Safiye Sultan (صفیه سلطان; 1550 – 1619), was the consort of Murad III and Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the mother of Mehmed III.

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Selim II

Selim II (Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i sānī, Turkish: II.Selim; 28 May 1524 – 12/15 December 1574), also known as "Selim the Sot (Mest)" or ("Selim the Drunkard") and Sarı Selim ("Selim the Blond"), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.

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Seljuk Empire

The Seljuk Empire (also spelled Seljuq) (آل سلجوق) was a medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks.

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Siege of Vienna

The Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, to capture the city of Vienna, Austria.

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Suleiman the Magnificent

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Turhan Hatice Sultan

Turhan Hatice Sultan (c. 1627 – 4 August 1683; Turhan meaning "Of mercy"), was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) and Valide Sultan as the mother of Mehmed IV (reign 1648–87).

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Valide sultan

Valide sultan (والده سلطان, lit. "mother sultan") was the title held by the "legal mother" of a ruling Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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Women in government

Women in government in the modern era are under-represented in most countries worldwide.

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Kadınlar Saltanatı, Kadınlar Sultanati, Reign of Women (Ottoman Empire), Reign of women, Sultanate of the women, Sultanate of women.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Women

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