Kosem
The Sultana was born in 1590, his talents, intelligence and beauty impressed the Sultan Ahmed I in that case, being the most influential person in the palace, was the mother of the future governor of Bosnia Murad IV. She became a widow when very young, the successors of her husband Ahmed, Mustafa Osman I and II, confined in the palace, however, continued to intervene in the affairs of state. When Murad IV took the throne as a minor, Kosem took the government's authority in his hands until his son was able to govern. Unfortunately the death of his firstborn 'took him up on the political scene again during the reign of his grandson Mohammed IV, administering the state remained until he was strangled by her sister one night in 1651 Turhan. Kosem the Sultana, was one of the most notorious and significant women in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
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