# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hafsa-sultan
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:06.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hafsa-sultan"
name: "Hafsa Sultan"
slug: "hafsa-sultan"
description: "She was the first woman to hold the formal title Valide Sultan — queen mother — in Ottoman history, and for fourteen years wielded quiet, structural power at the center of an empire that stretched three continents."
tagline: "First Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1534"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BustOfAyseHafsaSultan_ManisaTurkey.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1479"
deathDate: "1534-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.07
  momentum:             15.00689350907186
  historical:           22.706476
  currentAttention:     16.75
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Literature"
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  - name: "Turkey"
    slug: "turkey"
  - name: "Middle East"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Ayşə Həfsə Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Айше Хафса Султан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ayşe Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ayse Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ayşe Hafsa Sultan"
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    title: "Αϊσέ Χαφσά Σουλτάνα"
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    title: "Ayşe Hafsa Sultan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hafsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafsa_Sultan"
    title: "Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafsa_Sultan"
    title: "Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "הפסה סולטאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ajse Hafsza szultána"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Հաֆսա սուլթան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hafsa Sultan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "აიშე ჰაფსა სულთანი"
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    title: "عائشة حفصة سلطان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عایشه حفصه سولطان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1478, Ayşe Hafsa Sultan entered the Ottoman court as a concubine to Selim I. When her son Suleiman took the throne in 1520, she became the first to bear the official title Valide Sultan, formalizing a role that had existed informally before. From that moment until her death on 19 March 1534, she stood among the most influential figures in the empire, shaping policy and patronage from within the palace. Her tenure set the template for the mothers who would follow.