Mihrişah Sultan (wife of Mustafa III)

Mihrişah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: مهرشاہ سلطان‎; c. 1745 – 16 October 1805; meaning "Light of the King" in Persian), known as "the Georgian Beauty", was a consort of Sultan Mustafa III, and the mother of Sultan Selim III of the Ottoman Empire, and his de facto co-regent (as the Valide Sultan) for sixteen years from 1789 until 1805.

Mihrişah Sultan (wife of Mustafa III)

Mihrişah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: مهرشاہ سلطان‎; c. 1745 – 16 October 1805; meaning "Light of the King" in Persian), known as "the Georgian Beauty", was a consort of Sultan Mustafa III, and the mother of Sultan Selim III of the Ottoman Empire, and his de facto co-regent (as the Valide Sultan) for sixteen years from 1789 until 1805.