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Empress of the East

How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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Dec 19, 2018Hopalong_Kid rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Well written and thoroughly researched history of an interesting, take-charge queen that disrupted many nasty traditions of the Ottoman Empire, if only for the duration of the reign of a single sultan. A former slave, Roxelana was a powerful, family oriented sultana that established philanthropic traditions for the Ottoman Empire, but she could not overcome the murderous ways of the royal families of the Ottoman sultans that would be the reason the empire rotted from the top down.