Strongilah
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Strongilah (died 1548) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira of Hafsa Sultan, and possibly of Hürrem Sultan.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fatma
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Occupation
- merchant
- Religion
- Islam
- Noble title
- Kira
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- date of death
- 1548-00-00
- member of
- Imperial Harem
- ethnic group
- Sephardi Jews
- date of birth
- 1450-00-00
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Strongilah (died 1548) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira of Hafsa Sultan, and possibly of Hürrem Sultan.
==Biography== Strongilah was the daughter of the Karaite Jew Eliyah Gibor from Crimea. She is the first kira in the Imperial Harem of which there is any information. She become a kira by presenting the goods of her merchant husband to the harem women. As a kira, she acted as a go-between and provided luxury items, medicine and letters.
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