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  2. Sultanate of Women - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Süleyman's reign marked the absorption of the imperial harem into the palace and political sphere as he became the first sultan to be officially married to a woman named Roxelana, later known as Hürrem Sultan. [4] Before the Sultanate of Women, the sultan did not marry but kept a harem of slave concubines who produced his heirs ...

  3. List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The translation of the Ottoman Constitution of 1876 instead used a direct transliterations of "sultan" (Σουλτάνος Soultanos) and "padishah" (ΠΑΔΙΣΑΧ padisach). [4] Judaeo-Spanish: Especially in older documents, El Rey ("the king") was used. In addition some Ladino documents used sultan (in Hebrew characters: שולטן and ...

  4. Razia Sultana - Wikipedia

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    Razia was born to the Delhi Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish, an Ilbari Turkic slave (mamluk) of his predecessor Qutb ud-Din Aibak. Razia's mother – Turkan Khatun was a daughter of Qutb ud-Din Aibak, [ 3 ] [ 8 ] and the chief wife of Iltutmish. [ 2 ]

  5. Women in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Hürrem (Roxelana), the haseki sultan during Suleiman's reign.. The 16th century was marked by Suleiman's rule, in which he created the title of haseki sultan, the chief consort or wife of the sultan, and further expanded the role of royal women in politics by contributing to the creation of the second most powerful position in the Ottoman Empire, valide sultan, the mother of the sultan.

  6. Roxelana - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Deccani literature - Wikipedia

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    Bijapur played host to Hashmi Bijapuri, San‘ati, and Mohammed Nusrati over the years. [4] The rulers themselves participated in these cultural developments. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah of the Golconda Sultanate wrote poetry in Deccani, which was compiled into a Kulliyat. It is widely considered to be the earliest Deccani Urdu poetry of a secular ...

  8. Safiye Sultan (mother of Mehmed III) - Wikipedia

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    Safiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: صفیه سلطان, "the pure one"; c. 1550 – post 1619 [a]) was the Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Murad III and Valide Sultan as the mother of Mehmed III. Safiye was one of the eminent figures during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.

  9. Chand Bibi - Wikipedia

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    Chand Bibi was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah I of Ahmednagar, India [3] [unreliable source?] and the sister of Burhan Nizam Shah II, the Sultan of Ahmednagar. She was versed in many languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Marathi and Kannada. She played the sitar and painting flowers was her hobby. [4]