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'''Great Sultan''' is one of various informal [[title]]s, such as '''Grand Turk''', used to refer to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Sultan]], known in [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] as ''[[Padishah]]'', ''Hünkar'' or ''Hakan'', the sovereign of the [[Ottoman dynasty]]. |
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More appropriate would be to use the style [[Sultan]], or rather [[Sultan of Sultans]] (''Sultan us-Selatin'' in Ottoman Turkish or ''Sultan es-Salatin'' in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]), one of his many official titles. |
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Like [[Great Khan]] instead of ''[[Khagan]]'', such translations do not render the subtle complexities of the original phrases, but the usage is so frequent since centuries that it can be considered an established convention. |
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A similar phrase is the [[Grand Mughal]] for the Mughal emperor. |
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A curious circumstance is that the Ottoman dynastic tradition was to give the title of [[sultan]] (elsewhere a Muslim ruler) to princes and princesses, merely as close relatives of the ruling [[Padishah]], without an [[appanage]] (as the empire was indivisible). |
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