![]() Michalo Lituanus wrote in the 16th century that "the most beloved wife of the present Turkish emperor – mother of his first who will govern after him, was kidnapped from our land". Roxelana later managed to become the first Haseki Sultan or "favorite concubine" of the Ottoman imperial harem. In Istanbul, Valide Hafsa Sultan selected Roxelana as a gift for her son, Suleiman. The Tatars may have first taken her to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major centre of the Ottoman slave trade, before she was taken to Istanbul. ĭuring the reign of Selim I, which means some time between 15, Crimean Tatars kidnapped her during one of their Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe. Her native language was Ruthenian, the precursor to modern Ukrainian. According to late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as the Polish poet Samuel Twardowski (died 1661), who researched the subject in Turkey, Roxelana was seemingly born to a man surnamed Lisovski, who was an Orthodox priest of Ruthenian origin. She was born in the town of Rohatyn 68 km (42 mi) southeast of Lwów ( Lviv), a major city of the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, in what is now Ukraine. Sources indicate that Roxelana was originally from Ruthenia, which was then part of the Polish Crown. The name Roxalane derives from Roksolanes, which was the generic term used by the Ottomans to describe girls from Podolia and Galicia who were taken in slave raids. Hurrem or Khorram ( Persian: خرم) means " the joyful one" in Persian. Among the Ottomans, she was known mainly as Haseki Hurrem Sultan or Hurrem Haseki Sultan. Peirce has written that it may have been either Anastasia, or Aleksandra Lisowska. She died in 1558, in Istanbul and was buried in a mausoleum within the Süleymaniye Mosque complex. She probably acted as the sultan's advisor, wrote diplomatic letters to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland ( r. 1548–1572) and patronized major public works (including the Haseki Sultan Complex and the Hurrem Sultan Bathhouse). Through her husband, she played an active role in affairs of the state. Hurrem eventually achieved power, influencing the politics of the Ottoman Empire. Hurrem remained in the sultan's court for the rest of her life, enjoying a close relationship with her husband, and having six children with him, including the future sultan, Selim II. She was the first imperial consort to receive the title Haseki Sultan. ![]() Sultans had previously married only foreign free noble ladies. Breaking Ottoman tradition, he married Hurrem, making her his legal wife. She entered the Imperial Harem where her name was changed to Hurrem, rose through the ranks and became the favourite of Sultan Suleiman. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.īorn in Ruthenia (then an eastern region of the Kingdom of Poland, now Rohatyn, Ukraine) to a Ruthenian Orthodox priest, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during a slave raid and eventually taken to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. 'the Ruthenian one'), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana ( Ukrainian: Роксолана, romanized: Roksolana lit. ![]() Hurrem Sultan ( Turkish pronunciation: Ottoman Turkish: خُرّم سلطان, romanized: Ḫurrem Sulṭān Modern Turkish: Hürrem Sultan c. Sunni Islam, previously Eastern Orthodox Christian ![]() Lisovsky, possibly a Ruthenian Orthodox Priest ![]()
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