Kösem Sultan

Kösem Sultan

Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: كوسم سلطان; c. 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (Persian: ماه پيكر; lit. 'Visage of the Moon'), was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the chief consort of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide Sultan as the mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim, and Büyük Valide Sultan as the grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV. 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 Sultan's stature and influence were facilitated by her astute grasp of Ottoman politics and the large number of children she bore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kösem Sultan has received more than 5,066,355 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Kösem Sultan is the 84th most popular politician (up from 124th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Greece (up from 19th in 2019) and the 3rd 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.