ottomanladies: (OTTOMAN) WOMEN’S HISTORY MEME | 5 princesses: Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Süleyman
ottomanladies: (OTTOMAN) WOMEN’S HISTORY MEME | 5 princesses: Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Süleyman I Following in her mother’s footsteps, Mihrumah acted as Suleyman’s intimate counselor and sent him news and forwarded letters when he was away from the capital. She was instrumental in the decision to undertake the siege of the Mediterranean island of Malta in 1565, for which she offered to outfit four hundred galleys. It was in these years that Mihrumah worked with the royal architect Sinan on two of Istanbul’s most exquisite mosques, one in Rustem’s memory in a busy market neighborhood near the Golden Horn and the other in her own name at the Adrianople gate in the old Byzantine city wall. — Leslie Peirce, Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire -- source link
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