Sultan-Agha Khanum

Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم‎, translit. Soltān-Āqā Xānum‎) was a Safavid Queen Consort of Circassian origin, as the second wife of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576).^[1]^[2] She got married to Tahmasp I sometime before 1548, and was the brother of the Safavid-Circassian noble Shamkhal Sultan, as well as the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b. 28 March 1554, Nakhchivan).^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 Parsadust 2009.
1 2 Buyers 2009.

Sources

Blow, David (2009). Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who became an Iranian Legend. London, UK: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 978-1845119898. LCCN 2009464064.
Buyers, Christopher (2009). "PERSIA - The Safawi Genealogy". royalark.net. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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Parsadust, Manuchehr (2009). "PARIḴĀN ḴĀNOM". Encyclopaedia Iranica.

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