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It is better to work with Ibrahim...or Hürrem?

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I present you all with this facial expression for no reason

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Magnificent Century Season 3 + Sultanas Being Elitist

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Magnificent Century + Then versus Now: Mihrimah Sultan

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"Amid this general mayhem Barbarossa savored a special kind of mission given to him by Ibrahim Pasha. The pirate was to attempt to kidnap the most beatiful belle in all of Italy, Giulia Gonzaga, painted by many artists, including Sebastiano de Piombo, and coveted by many. This ravishing beauty was the widow of a Colonna prince, and therefore the mission would bring the Turks into conflict with the powerful family that had sacked Rome a few years earlier. Ibrahim's scheme was for the Italian prize to be delivered to Suleyman's harem, and to supplant Roxellana, the sultan's wife, who was giving the Grand Vizier fits. But when the Turks stormed her castle at Fondi, Giulia Gonzaga fled into the night nearly naked in the company of a single knight and escaped the clutches of the Turkish pirate. In reprisal, Barbarossa burned her village and torched a nearby convent, massacring the Benedictine nuns within. When the Turks were safely gone, Giulia Gonzaga had the knight who had aided her escape killed, for he had seen too much." —Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536, James Reston Jr.

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"She will be named Mihrimah. Like her name, may the sun and moon light her future."

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Magnificent Century + Hair Moments: Firuze Hatun's braids

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“You'll get the respect you deserve from now on. Nobody can show you a lack of respect. I won't let them.”