Sultan-Agha Khanum

Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم, romanized: Soltān-Āqā Xānum) also in Western sources Corasi was a Safavid queen consort of Kumyk origin, as the second wife of Safavid shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576).

Although she is often referred as of Circassian heritage; though, in Persian, the word Cherkes (چرکس, 'Circassian') is sometimes applied generally to Caucasian peoples living beyond Derbent in Dagestan.

[2] Her father was Choban b. Budai (d. 1574), Shamkhal of Tarki.

[3][4] She was the sister of the Safavid-Kumyk noble Shamkhal Sultan, future shamkhals Eldar, Mohammad, Andi and Girai,[4] and her brother, Emamqoli Khan was also in Safavid service.

[5] She married Tahmasp I c. 1547, and became the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b.