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Halime Sultan

1576 - 1623

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Halime Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: حلیمه سلطان, "the gentle one" or "the patient one", c. 1570 - after 1623) was a consort of Sultan Mehmed III, and the mother of Sultan Mustafa I. The first woman to be Valide Sultan twice and the only to be Valide twice of a same son. She had at least four children with Mehmed: two sons Şehzade Mahmud and Mustafa I, and two daughters, Hatice Sultan and Şah Sultan. She was de facto co-ruler as Valide Sultan from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618 and from 19 May 1622 to 10 September 1623, because her son was mentally instable. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halime Sultan has received more than 902,881 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Halime Sultan is the 882nd most popular politician (up from 937th in 2019). (up from 8th in 2019)

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  • 70.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Halime Sultan ranks 882 out of 19,576. Before her are Sima Yi, Cleopatra Selene II, Li Si, Empress Gi, Stanisław August Poniatowski, and Donald Tusk. After her are Merovech, Cato the Younger, Anne of Brittany, Yaśodharā, Henry I of England, and Frederick VI of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1576, Halime Sultan ranks 1. After her are Duchess Anna of Prussia, Roelant Savery, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Francisco Herrera the Elder, Stefano Maderno, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Jan Sarkander, Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, David Vinckboons, Gregorio Fernández, and Johann Schreck. Among people deceased in 1623, Halime Sultan ranks 2. Before her is Pope Gregory XV. After her are Tulsidas, Anne Hathaway, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Mariam-uz-Zamani, William Byrd, Domenico Fetti, Kara Davud Pasha, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Paolo Sarpi, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon.

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