Safiye Sultan was the wife of Ottoman Sultan Murad III and mother of Sultan Mehmed III. It is believed she was of Albanian descent. Her name "Safiye" means "the pure one". She was born about 1550, but her date of death is uncertain between 1605 and 1619. She was captured by corsairs and presented to the Ottoman harem sometimes in the 1560s, and became chief wife of the sultan after the death of her stephmother in 1574. Wikipedia
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