Kösem Sultan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and Sultan Regent for two decades
Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1590
Place of Birth: Tinos, South Aegean, Greece
Date of Death: 03-Sep-1651
Profession: REGENTĂ,CONDUCĂTOAREA STATULUI
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Kösem Sultan
- Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: ???? ??????, IPA: [cœ'sæm su?'tan]) (c.
- 1589 – 2 September 1651) – also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (Turkish pronunciation: [mahpej'kæ? su?'tan]; from the Persian compound ??? ???? Mah-peyker meaning "Moon face") – was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history.
- Kösem Sultan achieved power and influenced the politics of the Ottoman Empire when she became haseki sultan as favourite consort and later second legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (r.
- 1603–1617) (after Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan , who was the Sultan's first legal wife) and valide sultan as mother of Murad IV (r.
- 1623–1640) and Ibrahim (r.
- 1640–1648), and grandmother of Mehmed IV (r.
- 1648–1687).
- Kösem lived in the Ottoman Empire as a courtier during the reign of six sultans: Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II, Murad IV, Ibrahim, and Mehmed IV.
- After her death, she was known by the names "Valide-i Muazzama" (magnificent mother), "Valide-i Ma?tule" (murdered mother), and "Valide-i Sehide" (martyred mother).She became the Valide Sultan for 28 years and ruled the Ottoman Empire as regent for 20 years.
- She is the only Ottoman sultan in Ottoman history who took his two sons to the throne and then saw the reign of his grandson.
- In addition to this, it was the first woman of Ottoman Empire to be strangled to death.
- It is accepted that it became the symbol of female dominance in the Ottoman harem and reached the peak of the period which started with Haseki Hürrem Sultan, popular culture and scientific literature Sultanate of Women.
- In 1623, Kösem Sultan tried to rule the state as a regent of Ottoman Empire in a way never experienced before, and it was largely successful.
- With the decisions he made and the decisions she made on behalf of his son, she managed to extinguish the rebellion fire that ravaged the Empire.
- She raised the current that Hürrem Sultan created in the point of view of women in the Ottoman Empire and displayed the war of defiance of women's power and patriarchal administration in the best way.
- She has become one of the greatest names that come to mind when talking about women in the history of politics and administration.
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