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unusual facts about valide sultan



Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

He barely escaped being executed by the intercession of the valide sultan (queen mother) Şehsuvar.

Nurbanu Sultan

Moreover, it has been said that Nûr-Banû was related to Giorgio Baffo, as well as to Safiye Sultan, who was born Sofia Baffo, married to Nûr-Banû's son Murad III, and consequently became the next Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when her son Mehmed III acceded to the throne.


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Mihrişah Valide Sultan

In 1795, she founded the Mihrişah Valide Sultan School and Külliye in the region of Eyüp in Istanbul.

In 1805, she ordered the construction of the Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain in Yeniköy in İstanbul.