Rüstem Pasha
Rüstem Pasha Opuković (1500 – 10 July 1561) was a Bosnian born Ottoman statesman.
He served as the grand vizier of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Rüstem Pasha is also known as Damat Rüstem Pasha (the epithet "damat" meaning "son-in-law" to the Ottoman dynasty) as a result of his marriage to the sultan's only daughter, Mihrimah sultan.
He is known as one of the most influential and successful grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
He was as one the wealthiest grand vizier in history.
Rustem Pasha was taken as a child to Constantinople (now Istanbul), where he built a military and bureaucracy career.
He was very well educated.
On 26 November 1539, he married Mihrimah Sultan, the daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent and his powerful wife Haseki Hürrem Sultan.
His brother Sinan Pasha was an Ottoman grand admiral.
Taşköprüzade
Taşköprüzade Ahmet; variant Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah( 1494- 1561) was an Ottoman historian- chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was famous for his great biographic encyclopedia.
Gülfem Hatun
Gülfem Hatun( died 1561 – 62) was a lady- in- waiting to Suleiman the Magnificent( reign 1520 – 1566).
She was the first wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and mother of his son Şehzade Murad
Mahidevran
Mahidevran( 1500 – 3 February 1581; also known as Gülbahar) was the consort of Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire and the mother of Şehzade Mustafa.
Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim I)
Şah Sultan( 1507 – 1572) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I and Ayşe Hatun, and sister of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Hafsa Sultan (wife of Selim I)
Hafsa Sultan( 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.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I ('; or '; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan Süleyman ("Suleiman the Lawgiver") in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.
Under his administration, the Ottoman state ruled over at least 25 million people.
Suleiman succeeded his father as sultan in September 1520 and began his reign with campaigns against the Christian powers in central Europe and the Mediterranean.
Belgrade fell to him in 1521 and Rhodes, long under the rule of the Knights of St. John, in 1522–23.
At Mohács, in August 1526, Suleiman broke the military strength of Hungary, the Hungarian king, Louis II, losing his life in the battle.
Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th-century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's economic, military and political power.
Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies in conquering the Christian strongholds of Belgrade and Rhodes as well as most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529.
He annexed much of the Middle East in his conflict with the Safavids and large areas of North Africa as far west as Algeria.
Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and through the Persian Gulf.
At the helm of an expanding empire, Suleiman personally instituted major legislative changes relating to society, education, taxation and criminal law.
His reforms, carried out in conjunction with the empire's chief judicial official Ebussuud Efendi, harmonized the relationship between the two forms of Ottoman law: sultanic (Kanun) and religious (Sharia).
He was a distinguished poet and goldsmith; he also became a great patron of culture, overseeing the "Golden" age of the Ottoman Empire in its artistic, literary and architectural development.
Breaking with Ottoman tradition, Suleiman married Hürrem Sultan, a woman from his harem, a Christian of Ruthenian origin who converted to Islam, and who became famous in the West by the name Roxelana, purportedly due to her red hair.
Their son Selim II succeeded Suleiman following his death in 1566 after 46 years of rule.
Suleiman's other potential heirs, Mehmed and Mustafa, had died; the former had died from smallpox, and the latter had been strangled to death 13 years earlier at the sultan's order.
His other son Bayezid was executed in 1561 on Suleiman's orders, along with Bayezid's four sons, after a rebellion.
Although scholars no longer believe that the empire declined after his death, the end of Suleiman's reign is still frequently characterized as a watershed in Ottoman history.
In the decades after Suleiman, the empire began to experience significant political, institutional, and economic changes, a phenomenon often referred to as the Transformation of the Ottoman Empire.
Erhan Can Kartal
Erhan Can Kartal( born 19 December 1998 in Istanbul, Turkey), is a Turkish actor who played the role of Beyazid, son of Suleiman the Magnificent, in" Muhteşem Yüzyıl".
Selim I
Selim I (Ottoman Turkish:
سليم اول,
Turkish: "Birinci Selim"; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute , was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.
His reign is notable for the enormous expansion of the Empire, particularly his conquest between 1516 and 1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, which included all of the Levant, Hejaz, Tihamah, and Egypt itself.
On the eve of his death in 1520, the Ottoman Empire spanned about , having grown by seventy percent during Selim's reign.
Selim's conquest of the Middle Eastern heartlands of the Muslim world, and particularly his assumption of the role of guardian of the pilgrimage routes to Mecca and Medina, established the Ottoman Empire as the most prestigious of all Sunni Muslim states.
His conquests dramatically shifted the empire's geographical and cultural center of gravity away from the Balkans and toward the Middle East.
By the eighteenth century, Selim's conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate had come to be romanticized as the moment when the Ottomans seized leadership over the rest of the Muslim world, and consequently Selim is popularly remembered as the first legitimate Ottoman Caliph, although stories of an official transfer of the caliphal office from the Abbasid Dynasty of Cairo to the Ottomans were a later invention.
Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan
Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan( 1542 – 1595) was an Ottoman princess, the only daughter of Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Rüstem Pasha( Grand Vizier 1544 – 53, 1555 – 61).
She was granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent( 1520 – 1566) and his favorite consort and legal wife, Hürrem Sultan.

Question: When did Suleiman The Magnificent's father die?
Answer: 22 September 1520