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Kösem Sultan (play)
Kösem Sultan (; 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (;), was the Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide Sultan as a mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim and Büyük Valide Sultan as a grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV as well as the Naib-I Saltanat of the Ottoman Empire reigning from 1623 to 1632 during the minority of her son Murad IV, during the unstable reign of her younger son Ibrahim from 1640 to 1648 and to her grandson Mehmed IV between 1648 and 1651. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a central figure during the period known as the Sultanate of Women. Kösem's stature and influence were facilitated by her astute grasp of Ottoman politics and the large number of children she bore. One of her sons and grandson required her regency early in their reigns, and her daughters’ marriages to prominent statesmen provided her with allies in government ...
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A regent is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. The following is a list of regents throughout history. Regents in extant monarchies Those who held a regency briefly, for example during surgery, are not necessarily listed, particularly if they performed no official acts; this list is also not complete, presumably not even for all monarchies included. The list includes some figures who acted as regent, even if they did not themselves hold the title of regent. Asia Cambodia * Prince Sisowath Monireth, Chairman of the Regency Council of Cambodia in 1960 * Chea Sim, Acting Head of State of Cambodia from 1993 to 1994, and again from 1994 to 1995, and twice in 2004 * Nhek Bun Chhay, Acting Head of State of Cambodia in 2004 Japan * Regent Empress Dowager Jingū for her son, the future Emperor Ōjin * Prince Regent Shōtoku for his aunt, Empress Suiko * Fujiwara Regents as Sesshō or Ka ...
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