List of Valide Sultans
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- Nilüfer (Valide Sultan) (wife of Orhan I, mother of Murad I, tr:Nilüfer Hatun)
- Hüma (wife of Murad II, mother of Mehmed II, tr:Hüma Hatun)
- Amina Gul-Bahar (wife of Mehmed II, mother of Bayezid II, tr:I. Gülbahar Hatun) (1481-1492)
- Aishe Hafsa (wife of Selim I, mother of Suleiman I, tr:Ayşe Hafsa Sultan)(1520-1534)
- Hürrem (wife of Suleiman I, mother of Selim II, tr:Hürrem Sultan)
- Nur Banu (wife of Selim II, mother of Murad III, tr:Nurbanu Sultan)
- Safiye Sultan(wife of Murad III, mother of Mehmed III], tr:Safiye Sultan)
- Handan (wife of Mehmed III, mother of Ahmed I, tr:Handan Sultan)
- Mahfiruz Hadice (wife of Ahmed I, mother of Osman II, tr:Mahfiruz Hadice Sultan)
- Kösem (Mahpeyker, another wife of Ahmed I, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, tr:Kösem Sultan)
- Turhan Hadice (wife of Ibrahim I, mother of Mehmed IV, tr:Turhan Hatice Sultan)
- Saliha Dilashub (Saliha Dilaşub, another wife of Ibrahim I, mother of Suleiman II, tr:Saliha Dilaşub Sultan)
- Mah-Para Ummatullah Rabia Gül-Nush (wife of Mehmed IV, mother of Mustafa II and Ahmed III, tr:Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan)
- Saliha Sabkati (wife of Mustafa II, mother of Mahmud I, tr:Saliha Sultan)
- Shehsuvar (another wife of Mustafa II, mother of Osman III, tr:Şehsuvar Sultan)
- Mihr-i shah (wife of Mustafa III, mother of Selim III tr:Mihrişah Valide Sultan)
- Ayse Seniyeperver (Aisha Sina Parvar, Ayse Sine-perver, wife of Abdu’l-Hamid I, mother of Mustafa IV, tr:Ayşe Seniyeperver Sultan)
- Naksh-i-Dil (another wife of ‘Abdu’l-Hamid I, mother of Mahmud II,tr:Nakşidil Sultan) [There have been speculations that she was a cousin of Napoleon's wife Josephine[1]. See Aimée du Buc de Rivéry]
- Pertevniyal (wife of Mahmud II, mother of Abd-ul-Aziz, tr:Pertevniyal Valide Sultan)
- Bezmiâlem (Bazim-i Alam, another wife of Mahmud II, mother of Abd-ul-Mejid I, tr:Bezmialem Sultan)
- Rahime Perestu (wife Abd-ul-Mejid I, adoptive mother of Abdülhamid II, tr:Perestü Kadın Efendi)
[edit] References
- ^ Christine Isom-Verhaaren, "Royal French Women in the Ottoman Sultans' Harem: The Political Uses of Fabricated Accounts from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century", Journal of World History, vol. 17, No. 2, 2006
