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History of the Ottoman Empire
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Rise (1302–1453)
	Interregnum
Growth (1453–1683)
Stagnation (1683–1827)
	Köprülü era
	Sultanate of Women
	Tulip period
Decline (1826–1908)
	Tanzimat era
	1st Constitutional Era
Dissolution (1908–1922)
	2nd Constitutional Era
	Partition
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The Sultanate of Women (Turkish: Kadınlar Saltanatı) was the near 130-year period during the 16th and 17th centuries when the women of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence. Many of the Sultans during this time were minors and it was their mothers, leaders of the Harem, who effectively ruled the Empire.

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[edit] Literature

İlhan Akşit. The Mystery of the Ottoman Harem. Akşit Kültür Turizm Yayınları. ISBN 975-7039-26-8
Leslie P. Peirce. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press (1993). ISBN 978-0195086775

[edit] External links

Channel 4 History | The sultanate of women

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