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Hafsa Sultan

1479 - 1534

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Ayşe Hafsa Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: حفصه سلطان; "womanly/the living one" and "young lioness"; 1479 – 19 March 1534), was a concubine of Selim I and the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hafsa Sultan has received more than 602,216 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Hafsa Sultan is the 423rd most popular politician (down from 348th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 7th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Hafsa Sultan is most famous for being the wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. She was also the mother of Mehmed VI, who was the last Ottoman Sultan.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hafsa Sultan ranks 423 out of 19,576Before her are Louis VII of France, Rurik, Albert II of Belgium, Vitellius, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Harald Fairhair. After her are Rehoboam, Viktor Yanukovych, Józef Piłsudski, Maximilian I of Mexico, Louis VIII of France, and Augustus II the Strong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1479, Hafsa Sultan ranks 2Before her is Joanna of Castile. After her are Lisa del Giocondo, Vasili III of Russia, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, Diego Columbus, Peter Henlein, Guru Amar Das, Ippolito d'Este, Vallabha, Francisco de Montejo, and Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1534, Hafsa Sultan ranks 2Before her is Pope Clement VII. After her are Antonio da Correggio, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Marcantonio Raimondi, Thomas Cajetan, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Stephen VIII Báthory, Barbara Jagiellon, Otto Brunfels, and Khvandamir.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hafsa Sultan ranks 12 out of 1,365Before her are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), and Joseph Conrad (1857). After her are Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), and Stanisław Lem (1921).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Hafsa Sultan ranks 7Before her are Leon Trotsky (1879), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Golda Meir (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and John III Sobieski (1629). After her are Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Kliment Voroshilov (1881).