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130-year period during the 16th and 17th centuries when the women of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire had great political influence over the state
The Sultanate of Women was a period when some consorts and mothers of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence. This phenomenon took place from roughly 1534 to 1683, beginning in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent with his marriage to Hürrem Sultan and ending with the death of Turhan Sultan. These women were either the consorts - either... Wikipedia