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Turhan Sultan
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sixth Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1683
Key facts
- Tenure
- 8 August 1648 – 4 August 1683
- Predecessor
- Kösem Sultan
- Successor
- Saliha Dilaşub Sultan
- Regency
- 2 September 1651 – 2 June 1656
- Monarch
- Mehmed IV
- Born
- c. 1627
- Died
- 4 August 1683 (1683-08-04) (aged 55–56), Edirne , Ottoman Empire , (now Edirne , Turkey )
- Burial
- Tomb of Turhan Sultan , New Mosque , Istanbul
- Consort
- Ibrahim
- Issue more
- Mehmed IV
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Ottoman dynasty
- Given name
- Hatice
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Ruthenia
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- valide sultan
- Languages spoken
- Ottoman Turkish
- Native language
- Ottoman Turkish
- Religion
- Islam
- Noble title
- sultan
- Image
- Turhan Hatice.jpg
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- ethnic group
- Ruthenians
- date of death
- 1683-08-04
- date of birth
- 1627-00-00
- Commons category
- Turhan Hatice Sultan
- place of burial
- Tomb of Turhan Hatice Sultan
- name in native language
- Turhan Hatice Sultan
- unmarried partner
- Ibrahim I
- writing language
- Ottoman Turkish
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hatice Turhan Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: تورخان سلطان; c. 1627 – 4 August 1683) was the chief Haseki sultan of the Ottoman sultan Ibrahim (r. 1640–1648), and Valide sultan as the mother of Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). She served as official regent of the Ottoman Empire, from 1651 to 1656 and as de facto ruler of the Empire for over three decades. Turhan was prominent for the regency of her young son and her building patronage. She and Kösem Sultan are the only two women in Ottoman history to be regarded as official regents and had supreme control over the Ottoman Empire. As a result, Turhan became one of the prominent figures during the era known as Sultanate of Women.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turhan Sultan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.