2014.05.07 15:56
Suleyman I.
Suleyman I was born on 27th April 1495, Monday in Trabzon. His father was Sultan Selim I and his mother was Hafsa Sultan. Suleyman I was a tall man with a round face, hazel eyes broad forehead and a thin beard. Suleyman the Magnificent had reigned for forty six years (1520-1566) and...
2014.05.02 20:34
Hatice Sultan, (1496–1538) ) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I and Ayse Hafsa Sultan . She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman.
Hatice Sultan was born in 1496. First, she married İskender Paşa but became widow by his death. Then, she married Paragli Ibrahim Pasha, who was the Grand...
2014.05.02 20:31
Mihrimah traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire with her father as he surveyed the lands and conquered new ones. It is written in Persian literature that she traveled into battle with her father on an Arabian stallion called Batal at the Battle of Gizah in northern Egypt outside Alexandria.
In...
2014.05.02 20:23
The Topkapı Palace is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years (1465-1856) of their 624-year reign.
As well as a royal residence, the palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a major...
2014.05.02 20:14
Matrakçı Nasuh , born in the Bosnian town of Visoko, was a gifted Janissar who went through both the Infantry and devsirme system, a gifted swordsman, and sharpshooter well known for his intellect; he spoke five languages and was recruited into the Ottoman Nav.
Although born to Bosnian Muslim...
2014.05.02 19:57
The word harem is strictly applicable to Muslim households only, but the system was common, more or less, to most ancient oriental communities, especially where polygamy was permitted.
The imperial harem of the Ottoman sultan, which was also called seraglio in the West, typically housed several...
2014.05.02 19:49
Born in Amasa, Selim dethroned his father Baezid II. (1481–1512) in 1512. Bayezid’s death followed immediately thereafter.Selim put his brothers and nephews to death upon his accession in order to eliminate potential pretenders to the throne.This fratricidal policy was motivated by bouts of...
2014.05.02 19:42
The origins of the Janissaries are shrouded in myth, although traditional accounts credit Orhan I, an early Osman be who reigned from 1326 to 1359, as the founder. Modern historians such as Patricl Kinross date the formation of the Janissaries to around 1365, during the rule of Orhan's son murad...
2014.04.26 12:56
Islam is a verbal noun originating from the trilliteral root s-l-m which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, safeness and peace. In a religious context it means "voluntary submission to God".Muslim, the word for an adherent of Islam, is the activ participle of...
2014.04.26 12:46
Little is known of Mahidevran’s early life. Her ethnical background is a matter of controversy. She was either from Caucasus or from Albania. According to an interview with Saide Perizat Temrukoğlu, a descendant of Mahidevran, Mahidevran was the daughter of Temruk, a 16th-century Kabarday prince....
