Rahime Perestu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: پرستو قادین, "mercy" and "swallow"; c. 1830 – c. 1906), also known as Rahime Perestu Kadın, was the first legal...

reigning sultans who assumed the role, and eventually the title, of valide sultan, like Mihrimah Sultan, Kösem Sultan and Rahime Perestu Sultan. The title...

Sultan, no Ottoman Sultan legally married his consort. After nearly 130 years, Sultan Abdulmejid I legally married Rahime Perestu Sultan. Although the title...

influence; in the same way he did not allow his adoptive mother, Rahime Perestu Sultan, or other female members of his family to have such influence, though...

of the Ottoman Sultans were ethnic Circassians, including, but not limited to: Mahidevran Hatun, Şevkefza Sultan, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Tirimujgan Kadin...

daughter-in-law of Bezmiâlem Sultan, Abdülmecid's mother. She was the mother of Mehmed VI and three daughters. Rahime Perestu Kadin (1830 - 1906). She was...

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental...

Düzdidil Hanım died leaving Cemile Sultan motherless at the age of two. Abdulmejid took her to his first legal wife, Perestu Kadın, and entrusted her into...

Sineperver Sultan Nakşidil Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan Pertevniyal Sultan Şevkefza Sultan Tirimüjgan Kadın Rahime Perestu Sultan Gülcemal Kadın Gülistu Kadın Ertuğrul...

Şevkefza Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: شوق افزا قادین; 12 December 1820 - 17 September 1889; meaning "one who cheers up" in Persian), also known as Şevkefza...