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Ayşe Hafsa Sultan
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Ayşe Hafsa Sultan

Hafsa Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: حفصه سلطان‎‎; died March 1534) was the wife of Selim I and the first valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent. During the period between her son's enthronement in 1520 and her death in 1534, she was one of the most influential persons in the Ottoman Empire.

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