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Halime Sultan
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Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
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Halime Sultan was a female consort and slave in the Ottoman Empire. Born in Abkhazia in 1576, she held the position of valide sultan. Her religion was Islam, and she was the unmarried partner of Mehmed III.
She had four children, including Mustafa I, Şehzade Mahmud, and Halime Sultan. Halime Sultan died in Istanbul in 1623 and was buried in the same city.
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Key facts
- First tenure
- 22 November 1617 – 26 February 1618
- Predecessor
- Handan Sultan
- Successor
- Herself (1622)
- Second tenure
- 19 May 1622 – 10 September 1623
- Born
- c. 1570 , Abkhazia , Ottoman Empire
- Died
- after 1623, Old Palace , Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
- Burial
- Mustafa I Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque , Istanbul
- Consort of
- Mehmed III ( died 1603 )
- Issue
- Şehzade Mahmud , Hatice Sultan, Fülane Sultan, Halime Sultan (?), Mustafa I
- House
- House of Osman ( by marriage )
- Religion
- Sunni Islam , previously Eastern Orthodox
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Abkhazia
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Child
- Halime Sultan
- Occupation
- slave
- Position held
- valide sultan
- Religion
- Islam
- Number of children
- 4
Show 4 more facts
- place of burial
- Istanbul
- date of death
- 1623-00-00
- unmarried partner
- Mehmed III
- date of birth
- 1576-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Halime Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: حلیمه سلطان; 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 was a de facto co ruler of Ottoman Empire as Valide Sultan from 1617 to 1618 and again from 1622 to 1623, as her son was mentally unstable. Halime was also one of the prominent figures during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.
Halime lived in the Ottoman Empire as a courtier during the reign of seven Sultans: Murad III, Mehmed III, Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II, Murad IV.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halime Sultan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.