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Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان; "queen of light", c. 1525/1527 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as well as Valide Sultan (Sultana mother) as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583). She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women.
Nov 16, 2017 · The book: Nurbanu was the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire at its zenith in the 16th century, yet little is known about her. Katherine Nouri Hughes *84 ’s well-researched novel endeavors to get inside Nurbanu’s head in order to tell her story. The Mapmaker’s Daughter (Delphinium) is Nurbanu’s recounting of her own life from her deathbed.
Safiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: صفیه سلطان; "the pure one" c. 1550 — after 1619) was the Haseki Sultan of Murad III and Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the mother of Mehmed III and the grandmother of two Sultans Ahmed I and Mustafa I.Safiye was also one of the eminent figures during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.She lived in the Ottoman Empire as a courtier during ...
Nurbanu Sultan was also known for her charitable giving and her patronage of building projects, especially the construction of a magnificent building complex that included a mosque, madrassah and bath among other things. She was a beloved and respected figure when she died in her palace in Constantinople on December 7, 1583, presumably of ...
Afife Nurbanu Valide Sultan ( Osmanlı Türkçesi: نور بانو سلطان; d. 1525/1530 [1] - ö. 7 Aralık 1583, İstanbul ), Osmanlı Padişahı II. Selim 'in (saltanatı 1566-1574) yasal eşi olarak Haseki Sultan, Sultan III. Murad 'ın (saltanatı 1574-1595) annesi ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu 'nun Valide Sultan 'ıdır.
Murad III (Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث, romanized: Murād-i sālis; Turkish: III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavids.The long-independent Morocco was for a time made a vassal of the empire but regained independence in 1582.
FOTOĞRAFLARI. The benevolent haseki (sultan’s favourite woman) of Ottoman Sultan Selim II (B. 1525, Paros – D. December 6th, 1587, Istanbul). Her real name was Cecilia Venier-Baffo. She was the main wife of Selim II and the mother of Murad III. In some of the Ottoman sources, she was described as being a daughter of a Jewish family; on the ...
Nurbanu Sultan Biography. The product of an illegitimate union between two noble Venetian families, Nurbanu Sultan, née Cecelia Venier-Baffo, was the concubine and later wife of Selim II and the mother of Murad III. Captured in 1537 at the age of twelve, she entered the Ottoman harem and became Selim’s choice to bear his children.
Nurbanu (1525–1583)Ottoman valide sultana. Name variations: Nurbanu Sultan; Nurubanu Sultana; Cecelia Venier Baffo. Born Cecelia Venier-Baffo in Venice, 1525; died in Constantinople, 1583; illeg. dau. of 2 Venetian noble families; m. Selim II the Drunkard (also known as Selim the Sot), sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1566–1574); children: 3 daughters (names unknown), and Murad III (1546 ...
Nurbanu was the first favorite concubine without a powerful Queen Mother to keep her in check as well as the second, and last, manumitted concubine to marry a Sultan.28 Moreover, her son The shift in the Ottoman patronage system 7 Murad was chosen to be crown prince almost a decade before he took the throne in 1574.
