Strongilah
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Strongilah (died 1548) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira of Hafsa Sultan, and possibly of Hürrem Sultan.
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Strongilah (died 1548) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira of Hafsa Sultan, and possibly of Hürrem Sultan.
==Biography== Strongilah was the daughter of the Karaite Jew Eliyah Gibor from Crimea. She is the first kira in the Imperial Harem of which there is any information. She become a kira by presenting the goods of her merchant husband to the harem women. As a kira, she acted as a go-between and provided luxury items, medicine and letters.
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