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

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...

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...

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

Abdülmecid entrusted their son Abdülhamid to another his consort, Rahime Perestu Kadin, who had no children of her own. Tirimüjgan died on 3 October...

father, she adopted Rahime Perestu, one year of age. Rahime was particularly diminutive, delicate and graceful, so she renamed her Perestu, the Persian word...

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

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

Ottoman Sultan. For example, Hafsa Sultan, Suleiman's mother and first valide sultan, and Hürrem Sultan, Suleiman's legal wife and first haseki sultan. This...