Nilüfer Hatun

Nilüfer Hatun
The sarcophagos of Nilüfer Hatun is located inside the türbe (Mausoleum), of Orhan Ghazi in Bursa
Valide Hatun of the Ottoman Empire
TenureMarch 1362 – 1363
SuccessorGülçiçek Hatun
Diedc. 1363
Bursa, Ottoman Sultanate
Burial
Orhan Gazi Tomb, Bursa
ConsortOrhan
IssueMurad I
DynastyOttoman
ReligionOrthodox Christian (birth)
Sunni Islam (conversion)

Nilüfer Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: نیلوفر خاتون, water lily, called also Lülüfer Hatun or Ülüfer Hatun, died c.1363), was a concubine of Orhan, the second Ottoman sultan, and the mother of Murad I, Orhan's successor. She was the first slave of Christian origin to become the mother of an Ottoman Sultan.

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