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Turhan Hatice Sultan

1627 - 1683

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Turhan Hatice Sultan is the 644th most popular politician (down from 316th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Russia (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Politician.

Turhan Hatice Sultan is most famous for being the wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and the mother of Mehmed VI.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Turhan Hatice Sultan ranks 644 out of 19,576. Before her are Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Louis X of France, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Ivar the Boneless, Maria Carolina of Austria, and Irene of Athens. After her are Franz von Papen, Valerian, Imre Nagy, Robert Schuman, Faisal I of Iraq, and Olaf Scholz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Turhan Hatice Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Robert Boyle. After her are Shivaji, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, John Ray, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Aşub Sultan, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Willem van Aelst, Petro Doroshenko, and Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1683, Turhan Hatice Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Maria Theresa of Spain. After her are Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Kara Mustafa Pasha, Afonso VI of Portugal, Guarino Guarini, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Jacob Stainer, Juraj Križanić, and John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Turhan Hatice Sultan ranks 68 out of 3,761. Before her are Otto Wallach (1847), Yaroslav the Wise (978), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Boris Spassky (1937), and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899). After her are Vladimir the Great (958), Rudolf Nureyev (1938), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Anna Pavlova (1881), Peter II of Russia (1715), and Peter Carl Fabergé (1846).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Turhan Hatice Sultan ranks 25. Before her are Paul I of Russia (1754), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Alexander Kerensky (1881), Rurik (830), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), and Yaroslav the Wise (978). After her are Peter II of Russia (1715), Anna of Russia (1693), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Boris Godunov (1552), Feodor I of Russia (1557), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).

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