This is a list of consorts of the Ottoman sultans, the wives and concubines of the monarchs of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over the transcontinental empire from its inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.
Hatun (ota|خاتون) was used as an honorific for women in the Ottoman period, roughly equivalent to the English term Lady. The term was being used for the Ottoman sultan's consorts. When the son of one of the consorts ascended the throne she became Valide Hatun (Mother of Sultan).
Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan" after their given names. Consequently, the title "Valide Hatun" also turned into "Valide Sultan". In this time, the title "Haseki Sultan" was created and used for the legal wife or Chief Consort of the Ottoman Sultan. For example, Hafsa Sultan, Suleiman's mother and first valide sultan, and Hürrem Sultan, Suleiman's legal wife and first haseki sultan. This usage underlines the Ottoman conception of sovereign power as family prerogative.[1] Towards the end of the seventeenth century the title hatun and sultan for imperial consorts was replaced by Kadın and Ikbal.
Kadın (ota|قادين) was the title given to the consorts of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The title officially first came in use during the reign of Sultan Suleiman II. The Sultan could have up to four and some times five women with the imperial rank of Kadın and unlimited number of women with the rank of Ikbal.
Ikbal (ota|اقبال) was the title given to the official consorts of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who came below the rank of Kadın. Their honorific was "Hanim".
| Portrait | Name | Birth name | Origin | Place of Origin | Marriage | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mal | Turkish | Anatolia | Osman I | |||
| Rabia Bala Hatun | Rabia | Turkish | Turkey | |||
| Eftendize Hatun | Eftandise | Turkish | Anatolia | 13th century | Orhan I | |
| Asporça Hatun | Holofira, Olivera or Glafira | Greek | Bilecik | |||
| Nilüfer Hatun | Holofira (Possible) | Greek | Byzantine Empire | |||
| Theodora Kantakouzene | Greek | Byzantine Empire | 1347 (legal marriage) | |||
| Gülçiçek Hatun | Maria | Greek | Byzantine Empire | 1359 (disputed) | Murad I | |
| Kera Tamara | Bulgarian | Bulgarian Empire | 1370 (legal marriage) | |||
| Melîke Hatun | Melîke | Turkish | ||||
| Füldane Hatun | Maria Dejanovic Dragas | Serbian | Serbian Empire | |||
| Fülane Hatun | Olga Dejanovic Dragas | Serbian, daughter of Konstantin of Kostendil' | Serbian Empire | 1372 (legal marriage) | Bayezid I | |
| Sultan Hatun | Turkish | Kütahya, Germinayid Principality | 1378 (disputed) | |||
| Angelina Hatun | Angelina | Greek | Greece | |||
| Hafsa Hatun | Hâfize | Turkish | Birgi, Aydinid Principality | 1390 (legal marriage) | ||
| Mileva Olivera Lazarević | Serbian | Kruševac, Serbia | 1390 (legal marriage) | |||
| Marija Hatun | Maria | Daughter of the Hungarian count Janos, she was freed by Timur and handed over to Henry III of Castile. She later married Payo Gomez de Soto Mayor. | Hungary | |||
| Karamanoğlu Hatun | ||||||
| Devlet Hatun | Serbian | Serbia | ||||
| Emine Hatun | Emine | Turkish | Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality | Mehmed I | ||
| Şahzade Hatun | Turkish | Amasya, Kutluşah Principality | ||||
| Kumru Hatun | Wallachian | Romanian | ||||
| Halime Hatice Hatun | Murad II | |||||
| Hüma Hatun | Unknow | Slave of Slavic or Greek origin | ||||
| Mara Despina Sultan | Mara Branković | Serb | Serbian Despotate | 1435 (legal marriage) | ||
| Yeni Hatun | Turkish | Turkey | ||||
| Emine Gülbahar Mükrime Hatun | Anna Jelkamiz | Albanian, Slavic, Pontic Greek or Turkish | Unknown | Mehmed II | ||
| Gülşah Hatun | Serbian | Serbia | ||||
| Anna Hatun | Anna Komenene | Greek | Greece | |||
| Mükrime | Turkish | Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality | 1449 (legal marriage) | |||
| Serb or Turkish | ||||||
| Helena Hatun | Helena Palaiologina | Greek | Greece | |||
| Maria Hatun | Maria | Greek | ||||
| Hatice Hatun | Hatice | Turkish | ||||
| Şirin Hatun | Bayezid II | |||||
| Hüsnüşah Hatun | ||||||
| Bülbül Hatun | ||||||
| Nigar Hatun | ||||||
| Gülruh Hatun | ||||||
| Ayşe Hatun | Ayşe | Turkish | Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality | |||
| Muhtereme Ferahşad Hatun | ||||||
| Gülbahar Hatun | ||||||
| Gülfem Hatun | ||||||
| Mühurnaz Hatun | ||||||
| Ayşe Hatun | Ayşe | Crimean | Crimean Khaganate | Selim I | ||
| Şirin Hatun | ||||||
| Nilüfer Hatun | ||||||
| Hafsa Sultan | European, Turkish or Circassian | Unknown | ||||
| Zeynep Hatun | ||||||
| Mükerrem Hatun | Suleiman I | |||||
| Yasemin Hatun | Montenegrin | Montenegro | ||||
| Mahidevran Hatun | Albanian, Abkhazian, Circassian or Montenegrin | Albania, Circassia or Montenegro | ||||
| Hürrem Sultan | Ruthenian | Kingdhom of Poland | 1534 (legal marriage) | |||
| Hübeh Hatun | ||||||
| Emine Hatun | Selim II | |||||
| Nurbanu Sultan | Cecilia Venier-Baffo, Rachēl or Kalē Kartanoū | Venetian, Greek or Jewish | Paros, Republic of Venice or Corfu, Republic of Venice | |||
| Esma Hatun | ||||||
| Selimiye Hatun | ||||||
| Nuray Hatun | ||||||
| Neylan Hatun | ||||||
| Leyla Hatun | ||||||
| Safiye Sultan | Albanian | Albania, Dukagjin Highlands | Murad III | |||
| Zerefsan Hatun | ||||||
| Nazperver Hatun | Dobra Basarab | Moldovan | Moldova | |||
| Fakriye Hatun | ||||||
| Elif Hatun | ||||||
| Aygül Hatun | ||||||
| Şahıhuban Hatun | ||||||
| Rashida Hatun | ||||||
| Helena Hatun | Helena | |||||
| Şemsiruhsar Hatun | ||||||
| Mihriban Hatun | ||||||
| Handan Sultan | Helena or Helen | Bosnian or Greek[2] | Ottoman Bosnia or Ottoman Greece | Mehmed III | ||
| Halime Sultan | Abkhaz | Abkhazia | ||||
| Fülane Hatun | Greek | Greece | ||||
| Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan | Unknown | Maybe Greek or Serbian | Ahmed I | |||
| Mahpeyker Kösem Sultan | Unknown | Greek | Unknown | |||
| Fatma Hatun | ||||||
| Șahzaman Hatun | ||||||
| Ayşe Sultan | Osman II | |||||
| Serbian | ||||||
| Akile Hatun | Akile | Turkish | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | |||
| Ayşe Sultan | Murad IV | |||||
| Şemsperi / Semşişah Sultan | ||||||
| Sanavber Hatun | ||||||
| Esma Hatun | ||||||
| Ayse Mahziba Hatun | ||||||
| Zarife Hatun | Georgian | Georgia | Ibrahim I | |||
| Turhan Sultan | Nadya | Russian | Russia | |||
| Saliha Dilaşub Sultan | Katarina? | Serbian? | Maybe Serbia | |||
| Hubyar Hatun | ||||||
| Hatice Muazzez Sultan | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||
| Mahienver Sultan | ||||||
| Saçbağlı Leyla Sultan | Georgian | Georgia | ||||
| Şivekar Sultan | Maria | Armenian | Armenia | |||
| Ayșe Sultan | ||||||
| Hümaşah Sultan | Circassian or Georgian | Georgia | 1647 (legal marriage) | |||
| Șakizula Hatun | ||||||
| Şekerpare Hatun | Romanian | Romania | ||||
| Handanzade Hatun | Greek | Greece | ||||
| Meleki Hatun | ||||||
| Emetullah Rabia Gülnüş Sultan | Evmania Voria | From the Greek or Venetian Verzini family from the island of Grete | Rethymno, Crete, Republic of Venice | Mehmed IV | ||
| Afife Hatun | ||||||
| Kaniye Hatun | ||||||
| Siyavuș Hatun | ||||||
| Gülbeyaz Hatun | Hungarian | Hungary | ||||
| Nezvruz Hatun | ||||||
| Cihanșah Hatun | ||||||
| Dürriye Hatun | ||||||
| Gülnar Hatun | ||||||
| Güneş Hatun | ||||||
| Hatice Hatun | ||||||
| Rukiye Hatun | ||||||
| Hatice Kadın | Suleiman II | |||||
| Behzad Kadın | ||||||
| İvaz Kadın | ||||||
| Süğlün Kadın | ||||||
| Şehsuvar Kadın | ||||||
| Zeyneb Kadın | ||||||
| Rabia Sultan | Ahmed II | |||||
| Şayeste Hatun | ||||||
| Alicenab Kadın | Mustafa II | |||||
| Afife Kadın | ||||||
| Saliha Sultan | Greek | |||||
| Şehsuvar Sultan | Maria | Russian | Russia | |||
| Bahtiyar Kadın | ||||||
| Hatice Kadın | Bosnian | Bosnia | ||||
| Ivaz Kadın | ||||||
| Hüsnuşah Kadın | ||||||
| Emetullah Kadın | Ahmed III | |||||
| Emine Mihrișah Kadın | 1711 (legal marriage) | |||||
| Rabia Șermi Kadın | ||||||
| Ayşe Mihri Behri Kadın | ||||||
| Hatem Hanım | ||||||
| Hanife Hatun | ||||||
| Rukiye Kadın | ||||||
| Fatma Hümaşah Kadın | ||||||
| Gülneş Kadın | ||||||
| Hürrem Kadın | ||||||
| Meyli Kadın | ||||||
| Hatice Kadın | ||||||
| Nazife Kadın | ||||||
| Nejat Kadın | ||||||
| Muslı Emine Kadın | ||||||
| Sadıka Kadın | ||||||
| Hüsnüşah Kadın | ||||||
| Ümmügülsüm Kadın | ||||||
| Zeyneb Kadın | ||||||
| Hace Ayşe Kadın | Mahmud I | |||||
| Hatem Kadın | ||||||
| Alicenab Kadın | ||||||
| Verdinaz Kadın | ||||||
| Hatice Rami Kadın | ||||||
| Tiriyal Kadın | ||||||
| Raziye Kadın | ||||||
| Meyyase Kadın | ||||||
| Fehmi Kadın | ||||||
| Sirri Kadın | ||||||
| Habbabe Kadın | ||||||
| Leyla Kadın | Osman III | |||||
| Zevki Kadın | ||||||
| Ferhunde Kadın | Emine | |||||
| Aynülhayat Kadın | Mustafa III | |||||
| Mihrişah Sultan | Agnes | Georgian | Georgia | |||
| Fehmi Kadın | ||||||
| Rifat Kadın | ||||||
| Adilşah Kadın | Ayşe | |||||
| Binnaz Kadın | ||||||
| Gülnar Kadın | ||||||
| Ayşe Kadın | Abdul Hamid I | |||||
| Ruhşah Kadın | ||||||
| Binnaz Kadın | ||||||
| Nevrez Kadın | ||||||
| Ayşe Sineperver Sultan | Sonya | Bulgarian | Rhodope Highlands, Bulgaria | |||
| Mehtabe Kadın | ||||||
| Muteber Kadın | ||||||
| Şebsefa Fatma Kadın | ||||||
| Nakşidil Sultan | Georgian | Georgia | ||||
| Hümaşah Kadın | ||||||
| Dilpezir Kadın | ||||||
| Mislimayab Kadın | ||||||
| Mihriban Kadın | ||||||
| Nükhetseza Kadın | ||||||
| Nefizar Kadınefendi | Selim III | |||||
| Afitab Kadın | ||||||
| Zibifer Kadın | ||||||
| Tabısafa Kadın | ||||||
| Refet Kadın | ||||||
| Nürumşems Kadın | ||||||
| Hüsnümah Kadın | ||||||
| Demhoş Kadın | ||||||
| Goçenigar Kadın | ||||||
| Mahtube Kadın | ||||||
| Aynisefa Kadın | ||||||
| Pakize Kadın | ||||||
| Meryem Hatun | ||||||
| Şevkinür Kadın | Mustafa IV | |||||
| Reykidil Kadın | ||||||
| Dilpezir Kadın | ||||||
| Seyyare Kadın | ||||||
| Fatma Kadın | Mahmud II | |||||
| Alicenab Kadın | ||||||
| Nevfıdan Pertevpiyale Kadın | 1823 | |||||
| Dilseza Kadın | ||||||
| Mislinayab Kadın | ||||||
| Kameri Kadın | ||||||
| Ebrireftar Kadın | ||||||
| Bezmiâlem Sultan | Suzzanne | Georgian | Georgia, within the Russian Empire | 1822 | ||
| Aşubcan Kadın | Circassian | Circassia | 1808 | |||
| Vüslat Kadın | ||||||
| Zernigar Kadın | 1825 | |||||
| Nurtab Kadın | ||||||
| Haciye Hoşyar Kadın | French | France | 1811 | |||
| Pertizfekek Kadın | ||||||
| Pertevniyal Sultan | Romanian | Romania | 1830 | |||
| Hüsnımelek Kadın | ||||||
| Tiryal Hanım | 1826 | |||||
| Lebrizifelek Hanım | ||||||
| Servetseza Kadın | Circassian | Maykop, Russia | 1837 | Abdulmejid I | ||
| Circassian | North Caucasus | 1840 | ||||
| Ayşe Dişan | Ubykh | North Caucasus | 2 October 1842 | |||
| Gagra | 1 August 1839 | |||||
| Zeynifelek Hanım | 1841 | |||||
| Gülcemal Kadin | Bosnian | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1840 | |||
| Verdicenan Kadın | Saliha Açba | Sukhum, Georgia | 17 December 1840 | |||
| Nükhetsezâ Hanım | Hatice Baras | 21 October 1841 | ||||
| Mahitab Kadın | Nuriye | Makhachkala, Russia | 1845 | |||
| Nesrin Hanım | Adile Asemiani | 1842 | ||||
| Ceylanyar Hanım | Nafiye Berzeg | Ubykh | Sochi, Russia | 1847 | ||
| Nergizev Hanım | Natukhai | Anapa, Russia | 1847 | |||
| Navekmisal Hanım | Biberd | 1848 | ||||
| Bezmiara Kadın | Circassian | Circassia | 1849 - 1852 (Legal marriage) | |||
| Nalandil Hanım | Çıpakue | Natukhai | Anapa, Russia | 1850 | ||
| Şayeste Hanım | İnalipa | Sukhum, Georgia | 1851 | |||
| Ayşe Liah | 1852 | |||||
| Gülüstü Sultan | Fatma Çaçba | Sukhum, Abkhazia | August 1854 | |||
| Rahıme Perestu Sultan | Rahime Gogen | Ubykh | Sochi, Russia | 20 January 1856 (Legal marriage) | ||
| Dürrünev Kadın | Melek Dziapş-İpa | Batumi, Georgia | 20 May 1856 | Abdülaziz | ||
| Aredba | Adlersky, Sochi, | 1861 | ||||
| Hayranidil Kadın | Kars, Ottoman Empire | 21 September 1865 | ||||
| Nesrin Kadın | Nesrin Zevş-Barakay | Ubykh | North Caucasus | 1868 | ||
| Gevheri Kadın | Emine Svatnba | Gudauta, Georgia | 1872 | |||
| Mevhibe Kadın | Mevhibe Tarkanişvili | Tbilisi, Georgia | 21 January 1857 | Murad V | ||
| Reftarıdil Kadın | Hatko | 4 February 1859 | ||||
| Şayan Kadın | Safiye Zan | Natukhai | Anapa, Russia | 5 February 1869 | ||
| Meyliservet Kadın | Circassian | Batumi, Georgia | 8 June 1874 | |||
| Ayşe | Artvin, Ottoman Empire | 2 November 1877 | ||||
| Tsanba | 1863 | Abdul Hamid II | ||||
| Nurefsun Kadın | Circassian | North Caucasus | October 1868 - 26 June 1879 | |||
| Bedrifelek Kadın | Karzeg | Natukhai | Anapa, Russia | 15 November 1868 | ||
| Talustan | Georgian | Kobuleti, Adjara, Georgia | 2 September 1875 | |||
| Dilpesend Kadın | Azize | Abkhazia | Tbilisi, Georgia | 10 April 1884 | ||
| Kadriye Mikanba | Gagra, Georgia | 2 February 1885 | ||||
| Emsalinur Kadın | Kaya | 20 November 1885 | ||||
| Ayşe Ağırba | Hopa, Caucasus | 12 February 1886 | ||||
| Sazkar Hanım | Atiye Maan | Ayvacık, Çanakkale, Ottoman Empire | 31 August 1890 | |||
| Peyveste Hanım | Rabia Emuhvari | Pitsunda, | 24 January 1893 | |||
| Fatma Kadriye Açba | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | 20 July 1896 | ||||
| Behiye Maan | Beynevi, Adapazarı, Ottoman Empire | 10 May 1900 | ||||
| Zeliha Ankuap | Georgian | Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın, Ottoman Empire | 4 November 1904 | |||
| Ubykh | 30 September 1872 | Mehmed V | ||||
| Dürrüaden Kadın | Hatice Voçibe | Circassian | Caucasus | 10 October 1876 | ||
| Mihrengiz Kadın | Fatma | Ubykh | Sochi, Russia | 4 April 1887 | ||
| Nazperver Kadın | Emine Çikotua | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | 1888 | |||
| Dilfirib Kadın | Circassian | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | 1907 | |||
| Emine Marşan | 8 June 1885 | Mehmed VI | ||||
| Inşirah Hanım | Seniye Voçibe | Ubykh | Maşukiye, Ottoman Empire | 8 July 1905 | ||
| Müveddet Kadın | Şadiye Çıhcı | Derbent, Russia | 24 April 1911 | |||
| Ayşe Çıhcı | Derbent, Russia | 20 June 1918 - 20 May 1924 | ||||
| Nevzad Hanım | Nimet Bargu | Albanian | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | 1 September 1921 |