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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).
Nurbanu Sultan, Murad's mother, was upset with Safiye's influence on Murad, and wanted to replace her with another concubines of the harem. She even led a faction in the court from 1577 to 1580 in opposition to her mother-in-law and her faction.
Murad III ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث, romanized : Murād-i s āli s; 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.
Nurbanu Sultan was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II, as well as Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Murad III. 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.
Afife ‘namuslu’, Nurbanu da ‘Tanrının ışığını saçan kraliçe’ anlamındadır. Doğal olarak Hürrem Sultan’ın dediği olur; Nurbanu, Hürrem’in oğlu Şehzade Selim ile evlendirilir. Selim, Nurbanu’ya büyük bir aşkla bağlanır. Selim’in Nurbanu için yazdığı şiirler de divan edebiyatının en güzel eserleri ...
Captured as a slave (1537), entered the imperial harem and eventually married Selim II, son of Suleiman the Magnificent and Roxelana; became valide sultan (mother of the sultan), the most powerful woman in the empire, when her son Murad III ascended the throne (1574); was the empire's true ruler until her death.
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.
The Empress Nurbanu and Ottoman Politics in the Sixteenth Century. Nurbanu (1525–1583) is one of the most prominent yet least studied royal women of the Ottoman dynasty. Her political and administrative career began when she was chosen as the favorite concubine of the crown prince Selim.
Jan 18, 2021 · While Hurrem was the first Haseki Sultan to hold immense power, the first powerful Valide Sultan would be Nurbanu Sultan. According to various Venetian sources, the future Nurbanu Sultan...
