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Handan Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خندان سلطان, "smiling"; c. 1568 - 9 November 1605) was a consort of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, and mother and Valide Sultan to their son Sultan Ahmed I.
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- Hurrem Sultan, The Laughing One
- Turhan Hatice Sultan, The Killer Queen
- Handan Sultan, The Smiling Queen
- Safiye Sultan, Protector of The Heritage
- Nurbanu Sultan, The Benevolent Haseki
Born in Ruthenia, in what is now Ukraine, a young girl named Roxelana was captured by Tartar soldiers who sold her to a slave market in Istanbul. What she couldn’t have known is that someday she’d earn the name Hurrem Sultan (The Laughing One) and become one of the most powerful women in the Ottoman Empire as the wife of Suleiman The Magnificent. W...
Like Hurrem Sultan, she was also a slave who became a favorite of the sultan. Captured in Russia when she was just 12 years old, she was sent to Topkapi palace as a gift from the King of Crimea to Kosem Sultan. It’s thought that Kosem Sultan gave young Turhan Hatice to her son Ibrahim as a concubine. In time, she gave birth to a son, Mehmed, who wo...
Born in 1574, there is some controversy surrounding her birthplace. Many historians, however, believe Handan, whose original name is likely Helena, was born in the Sanjak of Bosnia, in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, in the region of Montenegro. While she was born into an influential family, she began her life in the same way as the wo...
Growing up in the court of Suleiman The Magnificent, Safiye Sultan, born in Dukajini, Albania, dedicated her life to bringing back the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. She was one of the last prosperous and powerful women in the 16th century Ottoman Empire and was captured and sent to Topkapi palace while still a child, where she became a gift for...
Born Cecelia Venier-Baffo, she was born of an illegitimate liaison between two noble Venetian families and was captured at age 12 in 1537. Shortly after that, she became part of the Ottoman harem and the concubine of Selim II. Captivated by her beauty, it wasn’t long before the sultan married this woman who would become the mother of Murad III, and...
The series follows the life of Kösem Sultan, the most powerful and influential woman in the Ottoman Empire, from the time she was brought as a slave into the Imperial harem of Ahmed I through her rise to power and influence as Haseki Sultan, then as a formidable ruler who dominated the Ottoman Empire as Valide Sultan and Naib i Sultanat to her s...
Handan Sultan (d. 1605), the Bosnian mother of Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617), has thus far remained an ambiguous political figure in Ottoman historiography.
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