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[gamerism]

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent Century + Turkish dishes

[valyrianpoem]

Meryem Uzerli as HURREM SULTAN [60/?] Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century, 2011)

[anastasiasultana]

FAV FITS: KOSEM'S PEPPERMINT PRINCESS DRESS

Featured In → Magnificent Century: Kösem Episode 8 Description → Kösem's peppermint silk and chiffon gown, with puff-capped sleeves halted at the elbow, full skirts and floral embroidery. The bodice, sleeves and underskirt have abstract floral embroidery in shades of brown, cream and ivory, with peppermint silk panelling. The gown is worn with a silver tulip necklace, droplet earrings and a diaphanous veil outside of the harem.

[hurremsultn]

"Suleiman’s love for Hurrem found powerful expression in his poetic letters to her. When both Navagero and Trevisano wrote in their 1553 and 1554 reports to Venice that she was “much loved by her master” (“tanto amata da sua maestà”), Roxolana was already in her fifties, long past her prime. After her death in April 1558, Suleiman remained inconsolable for a long time. She was the greatest love of his life, his soulmate and lawful wife, and a woman of extraordinary character. Suleiman’s great love for Roxolana was manifest in his exceptional treatment of his hasseki. To her benefit, the Sultan broke a series of very important traditions of the imperial harem. In 1533 or 1534 (the exact date is unknown), Suleiman married Hurrem in a magnificent formal ceremony, violating a 300-year-old custom of the Ottoman house according to which sultans were not to marry their concubines. Never before was a former slave elevated to the status of the sultan’s lawful spouse. Moreover, upon marrying hasseki Hurrem, the Sultan became practically monogamous, which was unheard of in Ottoman history. As Trevisano wrote in 1554, once Suleiman had known Roxolana, “not only did he want to have her as a legitimate wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had never been done by any of his predecessors, for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them, or for carnal pleasure.”

– Roxolana: “The Greatest Empresse of the East” by Galina Yermolenko (DeSales University Center Valley, Pennsylvania)

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Merve Bolugur as Nurbanu Sultan Magnificent Century Episode 136

[kathrynhoward]

Selma Ergeç as Hatice Sultan Muhtesem Yüzyil (2011 - 2014)

[kosemsultanim]

Nurbanu Sultan's costumes in Season 4 of Magnificent Century (2011-2014) [3/3] requested by anonymous