Recently unveiled love letters sent by an Ottoman queen to her king shed light on the most famous love story of the era. The letters, released by the presidential archives, were sent by Hurrem Sultan ...

49.5 x 38.5 cm. (19.5 x 15.2 in.) ...

It would be underestimating Empress of the East to consider it merely a biography of Roxelana (circa 1502-1558), the slave girl from Ruthenia — then ruled by Poland and now a part of Ukraine — who ...

A rare painting of Hurrem Sultan, known in the West as Roxelana, the wife of legendry Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, was sold in a London auction for £126,000 ($173,000) on Wednesday. The ...