Suleiman the Magnificent
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Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566. The longest reign among the Ottoman sultans, his rule brought about a notable peak in the Ottoman Empi
Portrait attributed to circle of Titian and dated to after 1543
Suleiman by Nakkaş Osman (painted in 1579)
King John Sigismund of Hungary with Suleiman in 1556
Siege of Szigetvár by Johann Peter Krafft, 1825
Hürrem Sultan
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Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, mother of his successor Selim II, and the first haseki sultan of the Ottoman Emp
Suleiman the Magnificent
…Empire which was at the height of its artistic, literary, and architectural development. In 1534, Suleiman broke with Ottoman tradition by marrying Hürrem, an influential woman from his Imperial Harem who helped usher in the "Sultanate of Women" period in Ottoman history. Upon Suleiman's death in 1566…
La Sultana Rossa” (Sultan Roxelana), a painting by the Italian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), depicting Hürrem Sultan, 1550
Seal of Hürrem Sultan in a 1548 letter addressed to Sigismund II Augustus