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Kösem Sultan

1590 - 1651

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Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: كوسم سلطان; 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: ماه پیكر;), was the Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide Sultan as a mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim and Büyük Valide Sultan as a grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV as well as the official Regent of the Ottoman Empire reigning from 1623 to 1632 during the minority of her son Murad IV and her grandson Mehmed IV between 1648 and 1651. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a central figure during the period known as the Sultanate of Women. Kösem's stature and influence were facilitated by her astute grasp of Ottoman politics and the large number of children she bore. One of her sons and grandson required her regency early in their reigns, and her daughters’ marriages to prominent statesmen provided her with allies in government. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kösem Sultan is the 206th most popular politician (down from 98th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Greece (down from 14th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Greek Politician.

Kösem Sultan was most famous for being a powerful and influential woman in the Ottoman Empire. She was one of the most powerful women in the Ottoman Empire. She was a slave girl who became a concubine, then a wife, and finally the mother of the sultan.

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Among politicians, Kösem Sultan ranks 206 out of 19,576. Before her are Cardinal Richelieu, James V of Scotland, Harald Bluetooth, Philip II of Macedon, William I, German Emperor, and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. After her are Isabella I of Castile, Artaxerxes I of Persia, Bill Clinton, Pol Pot, Sejong the Great, and Francis I of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Kösem Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Ahmed I. After her are Pope Clement X, Mahfiruz Hatun, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Simon Vouet, William Bradford, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Gioachino Greco, Urbain Grandier, John Albert II, and Yamada Nagamasa. Among people deceased in 1651, Kösem Sultan ranks 1. After her are Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, Ngawang Namgyal, Lennart Torstensson, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Abraham Bloemaert, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Tugay Bey, Giulia Tofana, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, and Cornelis de Vos.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Kösem Sultan ranks 24 out of 1,024. Before her are Thucydides (-460), Aeschylus (-525), Bayezid II (1447), Plutarch (46), Protagoras (-486), and Philip II of Macedon (-382). After her are Sappho (-630), Phidias (-490), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Draco (-650), Spartacus (-109), and Xenophon (-430).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Kösem Sultan ranks 6. Before her are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Solon (-638), Pericles (-494), Bayezid II (1447), and Philip II of Macedon (-382). After her are Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Demosthenes (-384), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), Leonidas I (-540), and Peisistratos (-600).

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