"Valide sultan (Ottoman Turkish: \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062F\u0647 \u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646\u200E, literally \"mother sultan\") was the title held by the queen mother of a ruling Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The title was first used in the 16th century for Ay\u015Fe Hafsa Sultan, consort of Selim I and mother of Suleiman the Magnificent, superseding the previous title of mehd-i \u00FClya (\"cradle of the great\")."@en . . .