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Kösem Sultan

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

1590 - 1651

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Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2024). Kösem Sultan is the 204th most popular politician (down from 97th in 2024), 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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#204 / 20k

Kösem Sultan ranks #204 of 20,022 Politicians worldwide, placing them among the top 2% of the profession.

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Kösem Sultan's Wikipedia page drew 1.3M views over the past year, 7.9× the average among Politicians.

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Kösem Sultan's biography was added to 5 new Wikipedia language editions in the past year.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Kösem Sultan ranks 204 out of 20,022. 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, Benedetta Carlini, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Gioachino Greco, Urbain Grandier, and John Albert II. 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 1,135. 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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