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]
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